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NEWS 

Last public testimony for Liliana Segre,
Holocaust survivor and champion against hatred

By Adam Smulevich

Last public testimony for Liliana Segre, 90, survivor of Auschwitz and since 2018 Senator for life upon appointment by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. To conclude thirty years of commitment on this front, a speech was held in front of the highest authorities of the Italian State in the "Cittadella della Pace" in Rondine, a center in Tuscany where young people from all over the world learn good practices of dialogue and coexistence. A very strong initiative also on an emotional level. A way, for the whole country, to say thanks to Liliana. In Rondine, to testify to their admiration were, among others, the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati and Roberto Fico, the Ministers Luciana Lamorgese, Luigi Di Maio, Gaetano Manfredi and Lucia Azzolina. The President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni and the President of the Italian bishops Gualtiero Bassetti also spoke and expressed their gratitude.
 

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NEWS 

Inside, Outside. The long road to the Emancipation
to be displayed in a major exhibition at MEIS

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Beginning with the establishment of the first ghetto in Venice in 1516, followed by that of Rome and other cities, the Jews had to measure themselves against this circumscribed and ambivalent place, which included them in the urban perimeter but at the same time isolated them. For almost three centuries this was the space in which the Jews cultivated their identity, on the one hand preserving the characteristics of a millenary culture, while on the other drawing from the world that opened up beyond that border: the constant relationship between the inside and the outside of the ghetto walls marks the life of the Jews on the long road to emancipation. This period will be reconstructed this spring in a major exhibition at MEIS, the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara. It is the third installment of the project undertaken by MEIS to tell the history of Italian Jews. 

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NEWS

The Wallenberg medal awarded to Gabriele Nissim 

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Gariwo’s founder and current president, Gabriele Nissim has been awarded with the Raoul Wallenberg medal. By recognizing the recipient’s exceptional moral character, such a highly symbolic prize honours the memory of the Swedish diplomat to whom the Foundation is dedicated. During the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews and others who were being persecuted in Hungary at that time. Following his example, the Foundation develops educational programs and awareness campaigns that are based on the values of solidarity and civic courage, ethical cornerstones of the saviours of the Holocaust.

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NEWS

The EJC meets Italy on Instagram

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“Did you know that the European Jewish Congress has ongoing collaboration with its 41 affiliated Jewish communities? Today, we meet the Jewish Community of Italy. UCEI @ucei_it is Italy’s Jewish umbrella organization and the country’s EJC affiliate”.
So begins the presentation of Jewish Italy on the European Jewish Congress Instagram account @eurojewcong. Through seven images, basic information is introduced to the readers: the role of UCEI and of its president Noemi Di Segni, the Jewish presence on the territory, and some curiosities. One of the images shows the Mole Antonelliana located in Turin, which was originally conceived and constructed as a synagogue and now houses the National Museum of Cinema. For the category Jewish personality, the choice fell on the famous painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani in the centennial of his death. 
 

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BECHOL LASHON

Le 7 octobre 1943

By Anna Foa*

Le 7 octobre, c’est l’anniversaire de la déportation des carabiniers romains dans les camps de concentration nazis. Ce matin-là, à l’aube, des parachutistes allemands et des SS ont encerclé les principales casernes de la ville de Rome, désarmé leurs carabiniers et déporté entre deux milles et deux mille cinq cents d’entre eux. L’ordre de désarmement, prélude à la déportation, daté du 6 octobre, avait été signé par le Maréchal Graziani, le criminel de guerre à qui la municipalité d’Affile a érigé un mausolée il y a quelques années, avec les vaines critiques de la région du Latium et l’approbation de la Cour de cassation italienne, auteur de carnages inimaginables en Lybie et Éthiopie, ministre de la Guerre de la République de Salò, condamné à dix-neuf ans de prison, qu’il n’a jamais purgés, pour son collaborationnisme dans l’après-guerre, inséré dans la liste des criminels de guerre des Nations Unies, dont l’Italie a refusé l’extradition. 

*  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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ITALICS

Italian comic Dago meets famous female
Jewish Renaissance figure

By Sarah Chemla*

The October 19th issue of Lanciostory, the popular weekly Italian comics magazine, will display a new adventure of the well-known Italian cartoon character Dago, titled "The wandering Jewess,” written by Gianluca Piredda and drawn by Leo Sgarbi. This new story will see Dago meeting and help Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510–1569), a Portuguese intellectual and one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1510, Gracia's family was from Aragon in Spain and were forcibly converted Jews, known as Conversos or Marranos. In order to keep practicing their Judaism, her family fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled the Jews in 1492. Five years later, in 1497, they were forcibly converted to Catholicism along with all the other Jews in Portugal at that time. 
 
*This article was published in the Jerusalem Post on October 12, 2020.

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