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NEWS

Senator for life Liliana Segre reports the haters

At the first Forum of Jewish women in Italy, in November, Senator for life Lilliana Segre had announced her intention to report her haters. “I am the oldest woman in Europa with a security detail because every day I receive threats, now also from the No Vax, since in am a Pro Vax. For a long time I chose not to talk about those insulting me, but now I have changed my mind. Now I am going to take legal action towards whoever signs the menaces” she said. The warning came true last week. Assisted by the lawyer Vincenzo Saponara, the Senator for life and Holocaust survivor filed 24 complaints against as many profiles for online threats.
The lawsuits were presented in Milan, to the telematic investigation section of Carabinieri. They are mostly complaints against unknown people. Among those who have been identified, according to press reports, the former television host Gabriele Rubini, also known as Chef Rubio. He had been sued for inciting racial hatred in 2019 following a tweet in which he called Israel "abominable".
The authorities will investigate the case and identify the other people who in recent months on social media or via email have sent the Holocaust survivor messages of "defamatory hatred, often of an anti-Semitic nature, and containing death wishes".

NEWS

Italian Committee for Bioethics,
Rabbi Di Segni included among vice-presidents

By decree of the President of the Council of Ministers the new Italian Committee for Bioethics (Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica – CNB) was established last week. The committee, which address ethical dimensions and emerging problems of health sciences, life sciences, and health care, will be presided by Angelo Luigi Vescovi, a biologist, pharmacologist, and scientific director of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza in San Giovanni Rotondo. The Rabbi of Rome and retired radiologist Riccardo Di Segni will be among the vice-presidents along with Mauro Ronco, a lawyer and emeritus professor of criminal law at the University of Padua, and Maria Luisa Di Pietro, director of the Center for research and study on procreative health at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

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CULTURE

Syracuse, un mikvé singulier pour la ville 

À Syracuse, il existe un mikvé - bain rituel juif - qui est reconnu comme tel par l’Union des Communautés Juives Italiennes et qui fait désormais partie d’un itinéraire culturel européen. Il y a plus de trente ans, il a été redécouvert par la marquise Amelia Danieli Di Bagni lorsqu’elle rénovait son hôtel-résidence situé en rue Allagona 52, mais son histoire est très ancienne. En dessous de l'hôtel, à environ 20 mètres de profondeur, se trouve ce témoignage, aussi séculaire que caché, de la présence juive dans la ville.  
Le site, selon les experts, est l’un des bains rituels les plus anciens d’Europe. “C’est également le seul reconnu selon les données du rabbinat italien” souligne Giulio Disegni, vice-président de la Communauté Juive Italienne et responsable du Sud du Pays pendant une interview avec le journal Pagine Ebraiche.
Disegni, avec une délégation, a rencontré récemment l'archevêque Francesco Lomanto pour faire le point à propos d’une polémique locale. “Il y a des gens qui disent qu’il y a un ultérieur mikvé sous l'église de San Filippo Apostolo. Mais cela n’est pas vrai. Avec l’aide du rabbin de Naples, Cesare Moscati, responsable du lieu, on a expliqué à l'archevêque que le site n’a pas les caractéristiques d’un mikvé juif. Il s’agit d’un puits réalisé en dessous d’une église, comme le montrent la documentation historique et les archives”.

Traduction de Margherita Francese, révisée par Alida Caccia, 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.

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GESCHICHTE

1938, Architektur holt die Erinnerung zurück

 „Was bleibt noch von der Arbeit und der Erinnerung an die jüdischen Architekten, die während des 20-jährigen Faschismus in Italien tätig waren und später aus den Registern gestrichen oder suspendiert wurden? Wie können wir die Erinnerung an die Fachleute wiederherstellen, die zu Unrecht verfolgt wurden und deren Karrieren und Erfolge abrupt beendet wurden?”. Dies sind einige der Fragen, welche, wie die Wissenschaftlerin Eirene Campagna erläuterte, den Ausgangspunkt für ein umfassendes Forschungsprojekt bilden. Ein Werk, das die Auswirkungen der Rassengesetze von 1938 auf einen bestimmten Bereich untersucht und beschreibt: die Architektur. Die Forschung ist Teil des Kulturprojekts „Architecture and remembrance”, an dem die Architektenverbände von Mailand, Bologna, Rom und Ferrara gemeinsam mit der Fondazione Cdec (dem italienischen Dokumentationszentrum jüdischer Zeitgeschichte), der Fondazione Maxxi (dem italienischen Nationalen Museum der Künste des XXI. Jahrhunderts) und der Comenius-Universität in Bratislava beteiligt sind.

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 – Pagine Ebraiche.
 

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ITALICS

Judíos libios cuyas tumbas fueron demolidas
en la era Gaddafi son recordados en Roma

Para David I. Klein*

Los nombres de 1.800 fallecidos son conmemorados en una serie de placas de mármol en un cementerio judío italiano después de que el exdictador del norte de África destruyera casi todas las tumbas judías. Una nueva iniciativa en uno de los cementerios judíos de Roma tiene como objetivo proporcionar un cierre, según un informe de British Jewish News. Casi todos los cementerios judíos de Libia, excepto uno construido en los terrenos de un campo de concentración dirigido por italianos, fueron demolidos durante el reinado de Muammar Gaddafi, el excéntrico hombre fuerte que gobernó el estado del norte de África desde 1969 hasta su ejecución en 2011. La guerra civil se desató en Libia hasta 2020, y no hay casi nada que mostrar de lápidas judías, ya que los terrenos del cementerio han sido reemplazados durante mucho tiempo por parques, edificios de apartamentos y otras construcciones.

*Este articulo fue publicado en Enlace Judio el 10 de diciembre de 2022.

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