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July 27, 2020 - 6 Av, 5780

NEWS

The European Day of Jewish Culture
to be celebrated on September 6

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Over ninety Italian locations, from North to South, will take part in the upcoming edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture scheduled for Sunday 6 September.
The 2020 edition will focus on several topics and will offer the opportunity to learn about Jewish history and tradition. A full program of online events will be also offered by the AEPJ which coordinates the initiative at the European level.

NEWS

Another victim of the Ardeatine
massacre identified

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Heinz Erich Tuchmann, son of Otto Tuchmann and Gertrud Essenberg and husband to Hilde Rosy Jacobson, was a German Jew who was born in Magdeburg on 18th January 1911. It was already known that he had been killed in the Ardeatine massacre, but no remains had yet been associated with his name. The DNA test undergone by his grandson Jeremy delivered the desired outcome.
A few months after the identification of another victim of the Nazi-fascist massacre, i.e. the Polish Jew Marian Reicher, this new scientific evidence leaves seven bodies still to be identified. The General Commissariat for the War Fallen, with the help of the Carabineer’s Scientific Investigation Department and of Florence University’s Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology, aims to find every missing piece as soon as possible.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, 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.

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Historian Bensoussan addresses
Italian government’s working group
for the fight against antisemitism

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Prominent French historian Georges Bensoussan addressed Italian government’s working group for the fight against antisemitism last week.
"Anti-Semitism today no longer takes the form of a conflict between 'races', but of the clash between Zionists and anti-Zionists. The heart of the matter, however, is the same. The cause of humanity's misfortunes used to be 'the Jew' while today, also by virtue of being the pillar of world Judaism, it is the State of Israel," he explained.

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Salónica, el refugio
de los judíos sefardíes

Julian Elliot*

En 2019 caducaba el plazo para que los descendientes de los sefardíes expulsados de España en 1492 pudiesen solicitar la nacionalidad española. Cinco siglos después de que los Reyes Católicos echaran a los judíos de Sefarad (como la Biblia denomina en hebreo a la península ibérica), una ley sancionada en 2015 por unanimidad en el Congreso buscó enmendar esa deuda pendiente.

*La Vanguardia 17.07.2020.

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Baruch de Spinoza

By David Bidussa*

Today is the anniversary of the pronunciation of the Cherem against Baruch de Spinoza by the members of the ma'amad of the synagogue on the Outgracht (i.e. of the Jewish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam). It was July 27, 1656, a Thursday for the record, or if you prefer 6 Av 5416. What remains of that moment today?.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

Why We Fast: To Learn the Dangers
of Jewish Division

By Jeremy Rosen*

On the Seventeenth of Tammuz, we began the period known as the Three Weeks that culminate in the fast of the Ninth of Av (this coming Wednesday night). After Yom Kippur, it is the most significant of our fasts. Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed twice, first by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and then by the Romans in 70 CE. And sadly, we brought the catastrophes upon ourselves through political and ethical failures.

*The article was published in the Algemeiner on July 26, 2020.

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