Having trouble viewing this email? Click here March 13, 2023 – 20 Adar 5783


  

In Rome, where the Jewish people have been marked "by great tragedies but also successes, we must remember that we are all brothers and sisters. We must remember it especially in these days of debate and disagreements in Israel: we have a common past and a shared future. For this reason, we must calm the situation and find an agreement. For this reason, all initiatives are welcome, including that of the President of Israel, to reach the broadest possible agreement in order to be able to continue together as brothers and sisters". So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking on Thursday in the Spanish Temple of the Jewish Community of Rome. In his speech, the PM reaffirmed the friendship between Italy and Israel, talked of the necessity to counter Iran's nuclear race, and highlighted the commitment to broadening relations with Arab countries, specifically with the Saudi Arabia. After the Prime Minister, the President of the Jewish community of Rome Ruth Dureghello, the President of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni, and Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni took the floor.

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"Italian Jews have been following the Israeli reality day by day, minute by minute, for months, years, decades, forever, as they feel part of the great Zionist dream and the building of the Jewish State which we witness passionately. Israel is part of our identity and destiny". These are the words of Noemi Di Segni, President of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, in welcoming the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to the Great Synagogue of Rome.
She greeted him on behalf of the 21 Italian Communities "with the hope that the meetings scheduled with the representatives of the Italian government will be productive and that the prolific cooperation between Italy and Israel will continue to bear fruit for the benefit of both our countries".
During her speech, among other things, Di Segni highlighted: "I can assure you, mister Prime Minister, that the feeling of transport, visceral identification and the desire to defend the rights and the valorisation of Israel is shared by every one of my coreligionists, in every community. Precisely for this reason, the scrutiny over the decisions that are being made – that translate into legislative proposals and ministerial guidelines – is strict and felt as a moral duty. As a Jewish duty".

Translated by Annadora Zuanel, revised by Alida Caccia, 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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Empezamos por el gran trabajo de catalogación y de transición digital del patrimonio de la Biblioteca Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano Tullia Zevi (el antiguo Centro Bibliografico di Lungotevere Sanzio 5) y por su valorización como centro cultural. Seguimos con la continuación de los trabajos en el cementerio de la antigua Gorizia judía en Rožna Dolina (Eslovenia). Luego, hablamos de un proyecto de restauración en colaboración con la Comunidad judía de Livorno y de las iniciativas en el sur de Italia, en Trani (Apulia) y en Sicilia. 2022 fue un año lleno de compromisos para la Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia (FBCEI). El Consejo de la Fondazione se reunió en Roma y aprobó por unanimidad el presupuesto. El presidente de la Fondazione Dario Disegni declara a Pagine Ebraiche: "Ha sido un año de trabajo intenso, durante el cual hemos desarrollado importantes proyectos de recuperación y de valorización de los bienes culturales judíos en Italia".
Disegni firmó el informe sobre 2022 aprobado por el Consejo. En sus palabras, se nota claramente la satisfacción por haber puesto en marcha muchas actividades. Entre ellas, explica, algunas se concluirán en 2023, otras seguirán desarrollándose a lo largo del año y otras más van a empezar. Primero, destaca el compromiso por lo que concierne la Biblioteca Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano. "La nueva denominación representa una parte del desafío. Queremos que el ente se convierta en una referencia central para las demás bibliotecas judías en Italia y para reforzar su papel como centro cultural nacional". Para favorecer este último objetivo, se está creando un amplio programa de eventos, talleres y conferencias, que ya han comenzado y seguirán durante 2023. Volviendo a lo del patrimonio bibliográfico y archivístico, comenta Disegni, está en curso un trabajo para la promoción de un proyecto trianual con respecto a la creación de una librería digital. El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar a los usuarios todo el contenido en línea.

Desde arriba, se puede admirar uno de los preciosos tejidos que se expuso en la Galería Uffizi en 2019 durante la exposición “Tutti i colori dell’Italia ebraica” (Todos los colores del judaísmo italiano), que, a través del arte de los tejidos, ilustró la historia de la cultura judía en Italia; la reciente reunión de la Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia.

Traducido por Francesca Pischedda y revisado por Diana Drudi, estudiantes de la Escuela Superior de Intérpretes y Traductores de la Universidad de Trieste, pasantes en la oficina del periódico de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas – Pagine Ebraiche.

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Amitai Romm was born in Jerusalem in 1985 and currently lives and works in Denmark. His artistic research revolves around hybridization between nature and the artifices of technology, mediated by science. Therefore, being the research strained between plant life and sensors, data collection processes speculate on the perception of this clash-encounter.
In his first exhibition in Florence, held two years ago at the Veda Gallery, Romm installed a small suction pump, connected to a PVC foil placed at the center of the gallery, on display, facing the street. The vacuum between the two surfaces held still, hanging in the air, an etrog (citron) grew with Mehadrin Kashrut process and brought in directly from Calabria, inside a wrapping without space nor air. In that intersection, resembling a hospital device, components were subject to a tension: what is shown meets the eye. In the new ongoing exhibition titled Graft, in the wide space of the Veda gallery until March 25th, that has since moved from the old town to the citadel of culture to the former Manifattura Tabacchi, Ami installs, hangs on the walls of the room suggestive works that challenge the public to interpret it in their own way.

David Palterer

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Noemi di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, denied specifically attacking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in her speech on Thursday, in an Interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "I did not address harsh criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I would like not to be included in the oppositional dialectic for or against the government, but to remain a voice inviting everyone to be responsible, above all those who govern. I wanted to give a voice to those who feel lost in the chaos of mutual accusations," Di Segni said.
 
*This article was originally published on The Jerusalem Post on March 11, 2023.

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