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Las líneas directrices para contrarrestar el antisemitismo son un presidio de importancia fundamental en los distintos ámbitos en los que estas se reflejan. Entre estos ámbitos, cabe destacar el de la educación que, a partir del otoño pasado, es objeto de una campaña de promoción de sus principios en toda Italia. 
En la Feria del Libro de Turín, en un momento de confrontación organizado en los espacios del Ministerio italiano de la Educación y del Mérito, se habló de educación y del compromiso contra la difusión de “las palabras de odio en línea”. En esta ocasión intervinieron la pedagoga Milena Santerini, que incluso es coordinadora nacional para la lucha contra el antisemitismo, el vicepresidente de la Unión de las Comunidades Judías Italianas Giulio Disegni y el investigador y experto del discurso de odio Stefano Pasta. 
La profesora Santerini subrayó que el antisemitismo no se presenta necesariamente bajo formas “canónicas”, como las de los white power skinheads, los supremacistas blancos, o las de los que muestran con orgullo símbolos nazi-fascistas que se reconocen con mucha facilidad. De hecho, puede presentarse como “un juego”, “una broma”, “banalizando la Shoah, justo como hizo el antivacunas exhibiendo su estrella amarilla” para afirmar que él era un perseguido, como durante la época de la persecución antijudía que acabó con el exterminio. 

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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“L’histoire de l’enlèvement d’Edgardo Mortara est tellement atroce que, si elle n’était pas vraie, personne n’y croirait”. Le journaliste Daniele Scalise parle d’un drame, tout d’abord par rapport à la première victime de cet évènement : le petit Edgardo, arraché à sa famille par l’Église de Pie IX.  “La lutte de sa famille pour qu’il retourne chez eux, le rôle du pape, puis sa nomination comme prêtre et l’aversion de tout le milieu catholique dans lequel il se trouvait est une histoire que l’on pourrait raconter dans un roman”. 
Scalise, après avoir écrit son essai historique Il caso Mortara [L’affaire Mortara] (éd. Mondadori), qui a inspiré le réalisateur Marco Bellocchio pour son film L’Enlèvement (en compétition à Cannes), a effectivement tiré un roman de cette histoire : Un posto sotto questo cielo [Une place sous ce ciel] (éd. Longanesi), présenté en avant-première au centre social de la Communauté juive de Turin pendant le Salon du Livre.  Il s’agit d’un projet organisé en collaboration avec l’Association Italie-Israël de Turin. Après les salutations de Dario Disegni, président de la Communauté de Turin, et de Dario Peirone, président de l’Association Italie-Israël locale, la chercheuse Elèna Mortara s’est entretenue avec l’auteur. “C’est une histoire atroce est incroyable”, a déclaré Disegni. Et pourtant il s’agit d’une histoire vraie et surtout d’une affaire qui a eu un impact international, a souligné Mortara, l’arrière-petite-fille d’Edgardo. 

Traduction de Klara Mattiussi, révisé 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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With a remarkable ceremony, held in January 2020, the Association of Architects of Rome had decided to invalidate the act of expulsion of four of its members that had been dismissed with the promulgation of the Italian racial laws. An act that has now no more value, but that stands as a symbolic gesture of rupture from an infamous past. “Time regained. Stories of Jewish architects”, inaugurated at the MAXXI – the National Museum of 21st Century Arts of Rome – is linked also to that moment. The exhibition is conceived as part of the international project "Architecture and Remembrance", with the collaboration, among others, of the CDEC Foundation of Milan. Prominent among the rooms of the Capitoline museum, devoted to contemporary history and its protagonists, are "nine different stories of design approach and life experience".
The exhibition – which commemorates the mark left by figures such as Daniele Calabi, Angelo Di Castro, Romeo Di Castro, Enrico De Angeli, Vito Latis, Gino Levi Montalcini, Alessandro Rimini, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Nina Livia Viterbo – is based on archival documents, design projects and testimonies. Moreover, it is guided by the commitment to restore the “personal and professional dignity” of these nine personalities who faced the violence of fascist antisemitism.

Above, a project by Daniele Calabi, Colonia Principi di Piemonte, Alberoni al Lido di Venezia, 1936-1937. Courtesy Università Iuav di Venezia, archivio fotografico Archivio Progetti.
 
Translated by Annadora Zuanel, revised by Laura Cattani, 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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“The commitment of this award is more necessary than ever in order to make people aware of our world, without those filters and distortions that are difficult to extirpate even in unsuspecting people. But also by reading what the students in the children’s session wrote to us, I would say that we do are taking some steps in the right direction”. Susanna Sciaky, national president of Adei Wizo, drew a more than positive balance of the situation when she inaugurated the conclusive ceremony of the 23^rd literary prize, which is awarded yearly by the Association of Italian Jewish Women and titled in remembrance of Adelina Della Pergola. 
Not a single seat was free in the blue room of the Scuola Normale in Pisa, full of students listening and clapping. At the head table were Eshkol Nevo and Andrea Molesini, while in connection on screen were Ayelet Gundar Goshen, Yigal Leykin and Max Gross. Among the speakers were the director of the Scuola Normale Superiore Luigi Ambrosio, city councillor for urban planning of the city of Pisa Massimo Dringoli, culture councillor of Livorno Simone Lenzi, commander of the national gendarmerie of the Livorno Carabinieri Ugo Chiosi, president of the Jewish Community of Pisa Maurizio Gabbrielli, and president of the Livorno Community Vittorio Mosseri.

Translation by Martina Bandini, revised by Valentina Megera, 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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Pope Francis formally recognized the martyrdom of an Italian priest shot by Nazi soldiers after they discovered he was helping his parishioners hide about 100 Jew. The martyrdom of Father Giuseppe Beotti, who was arrested and shot July 20, 1944, in Sidolo in northern Italy, was one of nine decrees in sainthood causes Pope Francis signed May 20. The help Father Beotti "offered to many Jewish people persecuted by the Nazi-Fascists played a decisive role" in his death, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
"To give them refuge, the priest had mobilized all the parishioners" and helped them hide and feed about 100 Jews, the dicastery said. "The Germans searched his house, but found nothing," but they continued to hold him while they gathered information about his activities.

*This article was originally published on The Pilot May 22, 2023.

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