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June 29, 2020 - Tamuz 8, 5780

NEWS

Cataloguing Italian Jewish books, a project bearing historical significance

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Y-TAL-YA Books is a project to recover, enhance and give access to a huge sector of Italian Judaism’s cultural heritage represented by 35 thousand books which are stored, but not yet registered, in 40 libraries all around Italy. It is symbolically named after the expression Italian Jews employ to refer to the Italian peninsula, i.e. Y-Tal-Ya, the Island of divine dew.
The project, which has been officially launched last week after an initial experimental stage, is the result of collaboration among the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), leader of the initiative, Rome National Central Library, the National Library of Israel (NLI) and Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
Team collaboration among Italy, Great Britain and Israel has continued thanks to technological tools and despite difficulties related to the health emergency of the last few months. Starting from Turin, a training phase is now about to be launched in order to move on to the cataloguing work..”

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

NEWS

New effort launched to identify and catalogue
every Hebrew book in Italy for first time ever

By National Library of Israel staff

A ground breaking collaborative effort to create a unified listing of all Hebrew books in Italy for the first time ever has been announced by The Union of Jewish Communities in Italy (UCEI), the Rome National Central Library (BNCR), and the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem. The "I-TAL-YA BOOKS" initiative is being made possible through the support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
Jewish communities have existed in Italy for more than two millennia and over the centuries it has played a critical role in global Jewish history, particularly as a significant center for manuscript production and printing.
Today in Italy, thousands of uncatalogued rare Hebrew books dating back hundreds of years are held among collections belonging to local Jewish communities, as well as libraries owned by the state.
Some of the collections have been partially catalogued; however, there is no single integrated and standardized listing of these holdings and so while many of these books have significant historical importance and hold tremendous potential for scholars, they are often difficult if not impossible to find.

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Italian Carabinieri commit to work to return Jewish books stolen by the Nazis

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Jewish Community of Rome and the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy signed last week an agreement aimed at finding and returning over seven thousand books which were stolen from the community by the Nazis.
The signature of the protocol was also marked by the restitution of 19 volumes uncovered with the cooperation of the General Directorate of the Archives of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage.
A Carabinieri group will be assigned to the task to carry out further research on the matter at national and international level.

bechol lashon - deutsch

Urlaub auf Balkonien

Elke Wittich*

In Berlin, Brandenburg und Nordrhein-Westfalen beginnen in diesen Tagen die Sommerferien. Doch Urlaub in Corona-Zeiten? Soll man fahren oder zu Hause bleiben? Die Ferienfrage beschäftigt die Nation, zumal Reisen nicht in jedes Land möglich sind und niemand voraussagen kann, wie sich die Corona-Infektionszahlen in den nächsten Wochen entwickeln werden.

*Jüdische Allgemeine, 28.06.2020.

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pilpul

Everything, immediately, without effort

By David Bidussa*

At the first difficulty, Jews around the desert complain. They want to go back to Egypt, or they make a feigned egalitarian revolt convinced that everyone should decides for themselves. We have been reading about it, including a week ago about Korach in the parsha.
The charm of "everything, immediately, without effort" is an evergreen.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Giving Life to Music from the Holocaust

By Yvette Alt Miller*

As World War II raged across Europe and the globe, many of the millions of men and women who found themselves imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, work camps and POW prisons were musicians, used to expressing themselves through music and song. “If you had one hundred men, you can be sure that ten of them likely would have been musicians – maybe five of them were professional musicians,” explained renowned Italian pianist, composer and conductor Francesco Lotoro in a recent Aish.com exclusive interview.
Countless prisoners composed music even under the most horrific circumstances during the darkest days of the Holocaust. Some penned short songs while others embarked on major works of opera or symphonies. For over thirty years, Francesco has made it his life’s work to collect these pieces of music and bring them to light. Today he is the primary figure preserving this incredible body of composition and he’s fighting to trace down the last vestiges of music written during the World War II period before it’s too late.

*The article was published in Aish on June 28, 2020.

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