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July 6, 2020 - Tamuz 14, 5780

NEWS

Simonino and the culprit's invention:
a new piece for awareness

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Trento, 23 March 1475. Simone, a two-year-old Christian boy mysteriously disappears in the alleys of the city. On Easter day his lifeless body is found near the home of a member of the local Jewish community. Blamed for the kidnapping and his murder, local Jews are imprisoned, tried and, on the basis of confessions extracted through torture, sentenced to death. The little Simone (called "Il Simonino") is declared victim of a ritual murder, becomes the object of veneration imbued with visceral anti-Semitism that will end only in 1965. To reconstruct this story and how the ecclesiastical authorities for centuries fostered the Anti-Jewish hatred is the exhibition "The invention of the culprit: the case of Simonino from Trento, from propaganda to history", open until next September 15 at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino.

NEWS

Museum of Italian Judaism and Shoah
reopens its permanent exhibition

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara reopened its permanent exhibition “Jews, an Italian story” last week, after the long break caused by the coronavirus emergency.
The museum has been completely sanitized. A new entrance and exit were also created to protect visitors.

FEAtures

Ennio Morricone, a personal memory

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By Alan David Baumann*

Children of artists never abandon the strong bond with the parents, although psychologically the umbilical cord must be severed. On the one hand the artwork helps, on the other its constant presence can mean a sort of perennial "devotion" or "subjection". I can imagine what is going on in Alessandra, Andrea, Giovanni and Marco Morricone's mind today.
Ennio's death means the loss of another shred of my personal story. He was a long though not daily presence, a story of friendship crowned by music and art.
I talked to him on the phone just before the Covid emergency, to ask him if he wanted to accept the position of "honorary member" in the Eva Fischer Foundation that I was about to set up and that I had to postpone for a few months for what happened. He immediately replied "Yes, of course", adding that "working for cultural dissemination in Eva's memory would have been something important for everyone".

*Translation curated by Pagine Ebraiche staff.

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Le mot «race»

Anna Foa*

Un nouveau débat est commencé à propos de l’abolition ou pas du mot « race », qui est d’ailleurs présent aussi dans notre constitution. On sait bien que les races n’existent plus, et la science l’a déjà amplement démontré. J’avoue que moi aussi j’étais pour l’abolition de ce mot honteux qui a causé de nombreuses pertes et qui continue encore aujourd’hui.

*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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Smart and foolish

By David Bidussa*

Nobody can save themselves alone. The "second wave", essentially, is this: the idea that it is sufficient to isolate, to pull oneself out, then, after succeeding, resume life "as before". Together with it, comes the denial: that is, the idea and the belief that the virus is a conspiracy because not only "it can't happen to me", but in any case "we are not buying it." Sometimes, unwittingly, smart and foolish coincide.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Joint effort begins to identify and catalogue every Hebrew book in Italy

By JNS staff*

A ground-breaking collaborative effort to create a unified listing of all Hebrew books in Italy 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.
Jews have lived in Italy for more than two millennia, playing a critical role in history as a center for manuscript production and printing.
Thousands of uncatalogued, rare Hebrew books dating back hundreds of years are held in Italy among collections belonging to individuals, communities and libraries owned by the state, the Italian Church Institutions and the Vatican.

*The article was published in JNS on June 30, 2020.

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