Having trouble viewing this email? Click here June 21, 2021 - 11 Tamuz 5781

“With their testimony of life, they contribute every day to cultivating fraternity, building a future made up of collaboration and defense of the weakest, growing in mutual good, plowing the ground on which hatred grows, sowing peace, and making our country a better place”. The commitment to Memory and the immense civil passion carried out by the witnesses of the Holocaust were solemnly recognized last week by the municipality of Assis, which conferred the honorary citizenship for peace to all the Italian survivors still alive. It is a “dutiful” and “heartfelt” act, stressed the mayor, Stefania Proietti. And this is because Memory, she said, “must be, in addition to being a value for respecting our past, also a responsibility of everyone, first of all of the institutions”.
That carried out by Assisi is a unique initiative and it was unanimously approved by the the municipal council. The ceremony, which was available in streaming on the social media, was organized by the city administration, together with the Museum of the Memory of the Diocese and the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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By Adam Smulevich

Venezia Football Club, Venice's soccer team which has just been promoted to Italian top professional league Serie A, has announced the purchase of the captain of the Israeli national team: Dor Peretz, 26, from Maccabi Tel Aviv. He is the third player from Israel to play in Italy after Tal Banin, in Brescia from 1997 to 2000, and Eran Zahavi, in Palermo from 2011 to 2013. Before them it would have been the turn of Ronny Rosenthal, recruited by Udinese in 1989. A contract terminated just a few hours after signing, due to his health problems. In the background, some demonstrations of anti-Semitic hatred on the part of the local fans had a strong impact on the media at the time. A story that therefore remains, in its own way, a symbol.
In his career Peretz has won three Israeli championships, two League Cups and two Super Cups. The debut in the senior national team (20 appearances and two goals) dates back to 2015. His goal is to be a starter in a team that, being away from Serie A for many years, will have as its main objective the permanence in the league.

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Second Life - a new opportunity. Ideas and debates for the creation of new dynamics “which are meant to support the restart of common living”. A chance to rethink “both the life of each of us and common life”. This was the challenge of the fourteenth edition of Ebraica, the international culture festival curated on behalf of the Jewish Community of Rome by Marco Panella, Ariela Piattelli and Raffaella Spizzichino, which took place last week.
The guest of honor was Army General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, an extraordinary commissioner in the fight against Covid, who opened the festival with the meeting “Seeing the future” joined by the chief rabbi Rav Riccardo Di Segni and the director of the newspaper La Repubblica Maurizio Molinari. Live and simultaneously online on the festival's social channels, where many contents are still available, Ebraica focused on different topics. Among the many guests, the singer and actress Tosca, the choreographer Mario Piazza, the former director of Meis Simonetta Della Seta, the economist Raffaella Sadun, the writer Lia Levi, the singer Raiz, and the psychiatrist Raffaele Morelli. Here the link to Ebraica Festival Youtube channel.

Translated by Antonella Losavio and revised by Oyebuchi Lucia Leonard, students at Trieste University and the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.
 

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The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah of Ferrara – MEIS promotes a series of events in English aimed at capturing both a national and an international audience. The program starts on June 22th at 7 p.m. (CEST) with a conversation about “The Mortara case”. Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, historian and curator of the MEIS upcoming exhibit “Beyond the Ghetto. Inside & Out” will be in conversation with the historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David Kertzer.
On 24 June 1858, Edgardo Mortara, a six-years old Jewish child, was kidnapped by the police in Bologna, which then belonged to the Papal State, and admitted to the House of Catechumens. Baptized in secret by a servant, Edgardo will never be returned to his family. In the midst of the Risorgimento, the case shocked Italian and international public opinion calling into question the legitimacy of papal power. Here the link to subscribe to the zoom event.

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Por León Opalin Chmielniska*

En el sitio Enlace Judío el pasado 15 de abril se señala que en Libia se buscó, sin permiso, convertir una sinagoga abandonada en Trípoli, la capital, en centro islámico. El Dr. David Gerbi, un judío italiano nacido en Libia y miembro de la organización que promueve los intereses de las personas que pertenecen a la Diáspora judía de Libia menciona que ahora que no hay ningún judío viviendo en Trípoli, las milicias que controlan el país decidieron “violar nuestra propiedad y nuestra historia”. Cabe destacar que como consecuencia de la ocupación alemana y el establecimiento del régimen de Vichy durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Libia, los italianos colaboradores de los nazis impusieron las leyes raciales decretadas en Italia en 1938. 

*Este articulo fue publicado en Enlace Judío el 10 de junio 2021.

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