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June 1, 2020 - Sivan 9, 5780

NEWS

"My father, a victim of the Ardeatine massacre. I finally know what his fate was"

By Daniel Reichel*

“I’ll tell you immediately how important it is for me to know where my father is buried. Every year, we celebrate Yom HaShoah and, on this occasion, I’ve always lit up the memorial candle (ner neshama) for my father. Why on that day? Because I didn’t know when my father had died. Now that I know, everything’s going to be different. It’s important to be aware of what happened, to see that place, i.e. the Ardeatine Caves, and to understand what these people went through.”
Seventy-six years later, this is what David Reicher said to Pagine Ebraiche about the importance of having discovered that his father Marian was buried in the Ardeatine Caves together with 334 other victims of this Nazi massacre which occurred on 24th March 1944.

Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

NEWS

The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah reopens its garden to visitors

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara reopened its “Garden of Questions” just before the Jewish festival of Shavuot on Thursday after the coronavirus emergency measures were eased up in the country.
"In Judaism, everyday life is marked by the awareness that the Earth and its products are not owned by us and that we must behave with respect towards what surrounds us. Reopening the Garden to visitors before one of the most important Jewish holidays, during which the relationship between man and the surrounding nature is celebrated, therefore represents a further symbol of rebirth," read the museum0s statement.

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Israeli champion might land in Italian Serie A

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By Adam Smulevich

Israeli soccer players in Italy have never been very successful. The first one was supposed to be Ronny Rosenthal, a very talented player: his transfer to Udinese in 1989 was officially cancled for physical problems, but the thing most associated with that unfortunate experience is the open anti-Semitism of some of the local fans expressed through threatening graffiti.
Two of his colleagues have then tasted the Serie A: Tal Banin, a good midfielder who played for three seasons at Brescia (1997-2000), andd Eran Zahavi, a striker, who played a season in Palermo (2011-2012) but not kept up with all the expectations of his supporters (he now is playing in China, where he scores and earns a lot).

bechol lashon - François

Après le 24 mai 1915

Anna Foa*

Il y a cent cinq ans, exactement le 24 mai 1915, l’Italie entre dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Le génocide des Arméniens avait commencé un mois plus tôt. Ce fut une guerre terrible, peut-être plus terrible encore que la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qui a marqué un tournant. Ce fut le début de ces décennies de guerre, de violence et de totalitarismes, jusqu’à l’extermination d’une grande partie du monde juif européen, qui allaient caractériser la première moitié du XXème siècle comme une seule période. La Grande Guerre a changé les hommes et les femmes, leur comportement et même le paysage, qui a été bouleversé par la guerre de tranchées. Aujourd’hui, le 24 mai nous rappelle essentiellement les strophes de la chanson « La leggenda del Piave » (La légende du Piave), où le Piave murmurait au passage des « premiers fantassins le 24 mai».

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Claudia Azzalini et révisé par Mattia Stefani, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaires au journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Literature foresees reality

By David Bidussa*

"If you want a figurative symbol of the future, imagine a boot that tramples on a human face ... forever." [G. Orwell, «1984», Mondadori, Milan 1950, pp. 282-283].
Literature foresees reality.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

This 2,000-Year-Old Coin Commemorates
a Jewish Rebellion Against Rome

By Alex Fox*

Archaeologists conducting excavations in Jerusalem’s Old City have unearthed a nearly 2,000-year-old bronze coin minted during the Bar Kokhba revolt, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in a statement earlier this month.
An unsuccessful uprising that lasted from 132 to 136 A.D., Bar Kokhba found the Jewish people rebelling against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. During the revolt, Jews began minting coins by pressing their own insignia on top of already circulating currency, including Roman denarii. Many such tokens have been discovered outside of Jerusalem, but out of the more than 22,000 coins discovered in the Old City, just four date to the time of the uprising—and only this newly discovered specimen features the word “Jerusalem,” the statement notes.

*The article was published in the Smithsonian Magazine on May 20, 2020.

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