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YAD VASHEM CHAIRMAN DANI DAYAN TO PAGINE EBRAICHE

“Pope a valuable ally against antisemitism”

By Adam Smulevich

It had never happened that a Pope welcomed a president of Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem on a private audience. It is therefore not surprising that Dani Dayan, who has been leading the Memorial from 2021, defined it as an "historic event". "Those who care about issues such as a correct divulgation of Memory and the fight against anti-Semitism can count on a friend in this Pope," he said at the end of the day, meeting Pagine Ebraiche in the home of Israeli ambassador Dror Eydar. The Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi also greeted him.
 During the meeting, Dayan expressed his strong appreciation to the Pope, also for the opening of the Vatican archives on Pius XII in March 2020. An initiative, he said, "that goes in the direction of a search for justice". On the occasion, talking around that topic, the Pope reiterated the message that "Church loves history". Transmitting also to Mr. Dayan the concept "that not everyone made the right choice". Words that the President of Yad Vashem has found "very important".
 Leading such a Memorial is a big and unique challenge. "I feel every ounce of this immense responsibility on me," he confided to Pagine Ebraiche. “I feel it towards the victims and those who survived. Our goal is to collect as many documents as possible, also converting them to digital. It is a heritage that will have to withstand the passage of time and the inexorable disappearance of those who have seen, lived, and told what happened in the Shoah in the first person".

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TOP ITALIAN INFLUENCER VISITED LIFE SENATOR AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

Ferragni: “Liliana Segre example of determination”

A photo with Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre, while waiting to visit together the Milan Shoah Memorial. Sharing a pic on her Instagram profile, top Italian fashion influencer and businesswoman Chiara Ferragni said last week that she had met Life senator in her house in Milan. “After speaking to her on the phone, today I had the pleasure to meet Senator Liliana Segre and get to know better her history and her determination. She’s incredible”, explained Ferragni, who Segre recently invited to visit the Milan Memorial along with her husband, Italian pop-rap star Fedez so to promote its message of tolerance and Memory.
While that visit is going to take place later on, the meeting between Ferragni and Segre drew a great deal of attention in Italy and on social media. Meanwhile at the Memorial Segre, on the occasion of the "Victims of hatred" conference organized by the Oscad (Observatory on discrimination), sends a clear message: "Every time life has given me the opportunity to fight hatred I have done it” but “still today someone turns the other way”.

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BÜCHER

„Rita Levi-Montalcini und ihr Meister”

„Rita Levi-Montalcini und ihr Meister”, der schöne Band von Marco Piccolino, Piera Levi-Montalcini, Maria Gattone, Michele Luzzati, Alberto Cavaglion, Giacomo Magrini, Isabel Murray und Pietro Calissano, wurde gestern auf der Internationalen Buchmesse in Turin unter der Leitung von Piero Bianucci (Edizioni ETS Verlag, 29€, in Originalsprache „Rita Levi-Montalcini e il suo Maestro”) vorgestellt. Es handelt sich nicht nur um eine faszinierende Ergänzung der bereits umfassenden Bibliografie von Texten, welche der Figur der großen Wissenschaftlerin gewidmet sind, aber auch um einen Text, der überzeugend eine echte Lücke im Wiederaufbau ihrer Rolle und der Welt um sie schließt. Eine Lücke, die mit mehreren Aspekten zusammenhängt.
Diese Seiten verleihen zunächst dem Character und treibende Kraft des Professors Giuseppe Levi, dem Lehrer von drei Nobelpreisträgern (Rita Levi-Montalcini, Renato Dulbecco, Salvador Luria), und einer ganzen Generation von Wissenschaftlern den richtigen Wert, wobei seine engagierte Haltung und die sichere Führung, aber auch die schroffen Charakterzüge und die manchmal diktatorische Methoden nachgezeichnet werden. Der Untertitel des Bandes lautet „Ein großes Abenteuer in den Neurowissenschaften gemäß der Giuseppe-Levi-Schule”. Und mit dem Meister, dessen Wert und Verdienste („Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen und bürgerliches Engagement”) von Marco Piccolino – einem Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftshistoriker, auch Herausgeber des Werks – analysiert werden, erwacht seine Familie wieder zum Leben, der Kern, der im berühmten Roman “Familienlexikon” von seiner Tochter Natalia (Ginzburg) so anschaulich wiedergegeben wurde.

David Sorani
 
Im Bild: Rita Levi-Montalcini erhält 1986 den Nobelpreis für Medizin
 
Übersetzt von Maria Cianciuolo, durchgesehen von Martina Bandini, Schülerinnen der Hochschule für moderne Sprachen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Triest, Praktikantinnen in der Redaktion der Vereinigung der Italienischen Jüdischen Gemeinschaften.

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Bassani's appeals 

When we speak of Giorgio Bassani, what comes to mind is, above all, the novelist. However, what is perhaps less well-known is the author's commitment to safeguarding the Italian artistic and cultural heritage, which stood out particularly in 1955, when we saw him as one of the founders of the cultural association Italia Nostra, and as president of it from 1965 to 1980. In the essay “Dalle macerie, cronache sul fronte meridionale” (Feltrinelli, 2018), devoted entirely to Taranto by the recently deceased journalist Alessandro Leogrande, a chapter is dedicated to Bassani's appeals for the recovery of the old town of Taranto.
Around the mid-1960s, when Taranto was being “resurrected” following the construction of the Italsider steelworks (now known as Former Ilva), the Christian Democrat municipal administration proposed razing the old city entirely, saving only a few monumental buildings so as to then build a sort of “new Manhattan” or “new Dubai”. Many intellectuals of the time were against this irrational demolition project, including Bassani, the architect Bruno Zevi, Giulio Carlo Argan, Cesare Brandi and Arrigo Benedetti.

Translation by Gianluca Pace, revised by Onda Carofiglio, students at the Secondary School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Trieste, interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities – Pagine Ebraiche.

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ITALICS

Deep in Vatican archives,
scholar discovers ‘flabbergasting’ secrets

By Jason Horowitz*

David Kertzer put down his cappuccino, put on his backpack and went digging for more Vatican secrets. “There’s an aspect of treasure hunting,” said Mr. Kertzer, a 74-year-old historian.
Moments later he cut through a crowd lined up to see Pope Francis, showed his credentials to the Swiss Guards and entered the archives of the former headquarters for the Holy Roman Inquisition.
Over the last few decades, Mr. Kertzer has turned the inquisitive tables on the church. Using the Vatican’s own archives, the soft-spoken Brown University professor and trustee at the American Academy in Rome has become arguably the most effective excavator of the Vatican’s hidden sins, especially those leading up to and during World War II.
The son of a rabbi who participated in the liberation of Rome as an Army chaplain, Mr. Kertzer grew up in a home that had taken in a foster child whose family was murdered in Auschwitz. That family background, and his activism in college against the Vietnam War, imbued him with a sense of moral outrage — tempered by a scholar’s caution.

*This article was originally published on The New York Times on May 27, 2022

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