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June 8, 2020 - Sivan 17, 5780

NEWS

Rav Spagnoletto appointed as new director of the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto has been appointed as the new director of the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara. Originally from Rome, 52-year-old, the rav was selected among 17 national and international applicants. He succeeds Simonetta Della Seta, who served in the position for the past four years.
"It is still too early to talk about plans and projects. I would like to take the time study the situation first,” he told Pagine Ebraiche. “However, I am aware that those who preceded me are leaving me a great wealth of work and relationships. In any case, I will do everything to make the MEIS a place where ideas and energies emerge, with the aim, among others, to highlight the many little-known treasures of the Italian Jewish communities."

NEWS

Milan’s Shoah Memorial reopens its doors

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Shoah Memorial of Milan reopened its doors to visitors on Sunday.
As all museums, monuments and cultural institutions, the Memorial, located in the warehouses of the city’s central train station, had been forced to close by the coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of March.
In the following months, the Memorial organized several lectures and initiatives online.

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Entrepreneur Guido Ottolenghi
awarded Order of Merit for Labour

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“This is the best recognition our company could receive after one century of activity. In thought, I would like to share it with those who contributed to the creation of our 100-year story throughout the past generations. Among the tasks they had to face were very hard trials, such as the Fascist racial laws of 1938, war, and persecutions”.
Guido Ottolenghi has long been at the helm of the family-owned company, the Petrolifera Italo Rumena. The company was founded in Ravenna in 1920 and it has been exclusive property of the Ottolenghi family since 1926. It works in the logistics in both Italian and foreign ports. It boasts a brilliant entrepreneurial history which has now been solemnly recogniZed from the President of the Republic as well. In the past few hours, Guido Ottolenghi was awarded the Order of Merit for Labour by the head of state Sergio Mattarella, along with other 24 Italian entrepreneurs who have distinguished themselves in their respective fields.

Translated by Sara Facelli, student at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Eugenio Colorni et la création de l’Europe

Anna Foa*

Il y a soixante-seize ans, le 28 mai 1944, la « Banda Koch », une équipe fasciste agrégée à l’SS de Rome, a tiré dans une rue de Rome sur un homme qui mourrait deux jours après. Le nom sur sa pièce d’identité, qui était d’ailleurs fausse, était Franco Tanzi. En réalité, il s’appelait Eugenio Colorni et il était antifasciste, philosophe, et juif. Pendant son exile à Ventotene entre 1939 et 1941, il avait collaboré avec Altiero Spinelli et Ernesto Rossi à la rédaction du Manifeste pour une Europe libre et unie, le texte précurseur de la création de l’Europe.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiant de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaire dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Black Lives Matter

By David Bidussa*

"Black Lives Matter" written on the road leading to the White House is not like the four words "I have a dream" of 57 years ago (August 28, 1963). A guide, an idea, an image to indicate the path to purse in the desert to get to the other side are missing.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Israeli composer gurgles, hums and howls
at coronavirus; then his friends join

By Jessica Steinberg*

After a month of COVID-19 seclusion with his wife, four-year-old and in-laws in Zumaglia, a village of 400 in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy, Jerusalem-born musician Yuval Avital couldn’t take it anymore.
He took the only computer he had with him, a simple tablet, “and I made a wordless prayer, a mantra with elements of shouting, even choking sounds,” said Avital, a composer and guitarist. “It was 12 minutes of non-filtered expression.”
What it expressed was his feelings about the coronavirus, its death toll, the closure of Italy, where he has lived for the last 17 years, and his own unexpected seclusion with his family.
But he soon realized he could create something bigger with this raw expression through collaboration with fellow artists from around the globe.
Avital turned that personal, vocal expression — which sounds like wordless humming, echoing and sound — into “Human Signs,” a composition created together with more than 100 singers and dancers he’s worked with over the years around the world.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel on June 6, 2020.

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