Having trouble viewing this email? Click here October 31, 2022 – 6 Cheshvan 5783 
 

NEWS

L’Italie et la nouvelle législature,
la note de la Présidente UCEI

La Présidente de l’Union des Communautés Juives Italiennes, Noemi Di Segni, a commenté avec ces mots l’intervention à la Chambre de la Présidente du Conseil Giorgia Meloni:
 
“Nous avons suit de très près le discours à la Chambre de la Présidente du Conseil des ministres Hon. Giorgia Meloni, dans lequel nous avons saisi des références claires aux questions que nous jugeons identitaires pour le pays tout entier – démocratie, mémoire et prise de distance du fascisme et de toute forme de totalitarisme. Il est temps des responsabilités et de la cohérence”.
“Nous suivrons également de près la traduction des intentions exprimées dans de concrètes et attendues mesures législatives pour endiguer toute forme de nostalgie et apologie, de racisme, d’antisémitisme, y compris celui tourné vers Israël, de naïve équidistance et de violence politique”.
“Ce sont des défis culturels que nous ne discernons pas entre droite et gauche, mais qui nous considérons être adressées à l’Italie entière, en concourant avec notre tradition, et ce sont aussi des valeurs incontournables de la vie du pays. Comme l’a dit Rav Tarfon : ‘La journée est courte, le travail est considérable’ (Mishnà avot 2 5). Alors, faisons du bon travail”.
 
Traduction d’Erika Centazzo, révisée par Onda Carofiglio, étudiantes à l’École Supérieure de Langues Modernes pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de l’Université de Trieste, stagiaires dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes – Pagine Ebraiche.

MEETING

Religions together at the Colosseum: ​
"War, parent to all forms of poverty"

"After the horrors and the distress of the Second World War, the Nations were able to stitch the deep wounds caused by the war and, through multilateral talks, to create the United Nations, the result of an ambition that, today more than ever, is a necessity: peace. People must continue remembering that war, the parent to all forms of poverty, is an immeasurable tragedy".
Such a concept is at the core of the speech given at the end of "The cry of peace", organized in Rome by the secular, international movement "The Community of Sant'Egidio". The meeting took place last week at the Colosseum and gathered Pope Francis and other religious leaders, among whom was the Rabbi of Rome rav Riccardo Di Segni, who sat right next to him.
The last paper to be read addressed the question of humanity's historical crossroad: "Either being the generation who lets the planet and humanity die, who collects and trades in weapons, who deludes themselves into thinking that it is possible to survive without cooperating with one another, or instead the generation who creates new ways of living together, does not invest in weapons, abolishes war as an instrument for resolving conflicts and stops the abnormal exploitation of the planet's resources".
The Pope stated that "this year, our prayer has become a ‘cry’, because today peace is being seriously violated, wounded, trampled on. And this is happening in Europe, that is, on the continent that lived through two tragic world wars in the last century – and we are now living through the third one. Unfortunately, since then wars have never stopped draining the earth and staining it with blood, but the historical moment we are experiencing is exceptionally dramatic. This is why we have raised our prayer to God, who always listens to the anguished cry of his children".

From top, a moment of the meeting "The Cry of peace" in Rome and the rabbis praying in the symbolic area of the Arch of Titus.
 
Translation by Alida Caccia, revised by Martina Bandini, 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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EDUCATION

Italian Rabbinical College,
the academic year kicks off

The academic year had its start on Sunday at the Italian Rabbinical College, the school that as primary duty has the education of rabbis e Jewish subjects’ teachers, with a lecture by Director Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni. The school provides a “medium” and a “higher” course. The first one, which requires at least four years, confers the title of “maskil”. The second one, of eight years, aims at a specific rabbinical preparation for students who already obtained the title of maskil (or can prove they have equivalent training). Along with these academic paths, the College functions as a pole for the diffusion of traditional Jewish culture in Italy.
The inaugural lesson, focused on the Rosh HaShanah treatise of the Talmud, was available in person and online.

MEMORY

16 October 1943,
remember together

At the dawn of 16 October 1943, over a thousand Roman Jews were rounded up in the building of the former Military Academy in via della Lungara, from which two days later they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a place of remembrance where the project of the association Ricordiamo insieme (Remember together), now in its tenth edition, returned last week to commemorate the raid of the Ghetto of Rome. Many interventions marked the ceremony, which took place in the courtyard of the building, which today houses the Centre for Defense Higher Studies of the Italian Ministry of Defense.
“It a meaningful event, just a few days after another anniversary marking the centenary of the March on Rome,” said the Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni. The two events, he said, are to be read together as different moments of "a slippery slope that drags towards destruction". Hence, the need "to be careful, to be vigilant, to fight for the affirmation of rights". 

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BÜCHER IM KOFFER

Erfahrungen und Welten im Vergleich

Shaul Bassi, Dozent an der Universität Venedig und Seele der Vereinigung Beit Venezia- Haus der jüdischen Kultur, schlägt uns zwei Bücher vor. Das erste ist ein Roman des israelischen Schriftstellers und Dramatikers Roy Chen, Anime, dessen italienische Ausgabe demnächst beim Giuntina-Verlag erscheint. “Wild, innovativ und sexy wie der Karneval in Venedig”, so lautet die Meinung seines Landsmannes Eshkol Nevo, angesehener Romanschriftsteller.
Venedig ist nicht zufällig einer der Protagonisten in der Mutter-Sohn-Beziehung, die zwischen inspirierenden Seiten verschiedene Orte und Szenerien der Geschichte durchlaufen. Man spricht von einem mit Ironie durchdringenden Schriftstil, der aber auch große schauspielerische Substanz hat. “Ich habe die Art und Weise, wie er sich beim jüdischen Italien versucht hat, zusammen mit seinen Ereignissen und Orten faszinierend gefunden. Ein Buch, das fesselt”, sagt Shault.
Chen wird bald in Venedig sein.
Das gilt auch für den Autor des zweiten empfohlenen Buches: The Netanyhaus von Joshua Cohen, der kürzlich mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Belletristik ausgezeichnet wurde. Was ihm auffiel, war “der Scharfsinn und die Verve, mit denen er den Konflikt zwischen zwei verschiedenen Arten des Judentums erzählt: das israelische, mit seinen eigenen Kennzeichen, und das von den amerikanischen Juden assimilierte Judentum”.
Das Stichwort stammt aus einer Geschichte über Benzion Netanyahu, Vater des denkwürdigen Likud-Führers und dienstältester Premiers des Staates Israel, einen der fruchtbarsten (aber auch umstrittensten) Gelehrten der Inquisition.
“Die Familie Netanyahu ist natürlich beteiligt, aber dies ist doch im Grunde nur ein Vorwand, um über jüdische Themen aus einer breiteren Perspektive zu sprechen. Das ist ein außergewöhnliches Buch, um es gelinde auszudrücken”, behauptet Bassi.

Übersetzt von Valentina Megera, durchgesehen von Maria Cianciuolo, Schülerinnen der Hochschule für moderne Sprachen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Triest, Praktikantinnen in der Redaktion der Vereinigung der Italienischen Jüdischen Gemeinschaften – Pagine Ebraiche. 

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ITALICS

Libia busca restaurar su antigua comunidad judía

La comunidad judía libia era una de las más antiguas del mundo; algunos historiadores sitúan el asentamiento judío en el país en el siglo IV a.C., y la primera sinagoga de Sirte se construyó en el año 10 a.C. En 1911, había unos 21.000 judíos en el país, principalmente en Trípoli, en el noroeste, y un número menor en Bengasi, en el nordeste. En 1941, el 25% de la población de Trípoli seguía siendo judía y había 44 sinagogas en la ciudad. Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los judíos libios eran más de 30.000.
Sin embargo, en 2002, cuando se informó de la muerte del último judío superviviente en Libia, la comunidad parecía haber desaparecido. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y posteriormente bajo el dictador Muammar Gaddafi, que tomó el poder en un golpe de estado y gobernó Libia desde 1969 hasta su muerte en 2011, la comunidad judía sufrió atrozmente.
 
*This article was originally published on Diario Judio on August 11, 2022
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