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MULTIMEDIA PROJECT

Map of deportation from Milan,
History is taking shape

It is first step toward digital and geographic modeling of deportation in Italy. A project carried out by Giovanni Pietro Vitali, a data analysis expert, together with CDEC Foundation and in collaboration with the Shoah Memorial of Milan. The result of this synergy has led to the reconstruction of a map that makes it possible to visualize space-time movements of Milanese Jews and Jews arrested in the city of Milan. “It is an example of how digital tools allow a visualization of the work of historians by using the enormous richness of data collected over time, in this case by CDEC”, points out to Pagine Ebraiche Vitali, professor of Digital Humanities at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. 
By cross-referencing the data available on the Digital Library of the CDEC Foundation, result of the enormous research work on the Italian Shoah conducted by the historian Liliana Picciotto, Vitali and his colleague Simone Landucci have worked to create, step by step, an interactive and multimedia map, where places and paths of hundreds of people victims of the persecution can be observed. 
More specifically, 260 Jews arrested in the area of Milan and 160 Milanese Jews, several of whom passed through platform 21 of the Central Station, now the Shoah Memorial. 

Translated by Laura Cattani and revised by Francesca Pischedda, students at the Advanced School 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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DIE WEBSITE

Der Fall Mortara, ein Rundgang durch die Quellen 

Die Archiginnasio Stadtbibliothek Bolognas, die größte in der Region Emilia-Romagna, hat beschlossen, die Erstellung einer speziellen Website zum Fall des kleinen Edgardo Mortara zu fördern. Er war das jüdische Kind, das von der Pius IX. Kirche aus seinen Lieben entführt wurde und dessen Fall eine Reihe von Ereignisse auslöste, die die Ende des sogenannten “Papstkönig-Regimes” beschleunigten. Die Website ist während einer gemeinsam mit dem Jüdischen Museum der Stadt organisierten Veranstaltung am Internationalen Festival der Geschichte illustriert worden. Sie sieht wie ein digitaler bibliographischer Rundgang durch die Quellen der damaligen Zeit aus: Tageszeitungen, Zeitschriften, Anzeigen, Bücher und Prospekte, Drucke und Zeichnungen. Es handelt sich also um einen direkten Zugang zur Dokumentation einer historischen Tatsache, die, wie betont wird, “zahllose politische, soziale und religiöse Konsequenzen und mögliche Folgen hatte”. Geschichte, Personen, Orte, Dynamik des Prozesses und Reaktion der Öffentlichkeit.
 

Übersetzt von Valentina Megera, 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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EXHIBITION 

Waiting for the Golem, artists’ pieces on display

The Jewish complex of Casale Monferrato returned to host one of the various exhibitions linked to CasaleComics&Games, the event in the city center that recently has engaged the citizens throughout the past weekend. Titled Aspettando il Golem (Waiting for the Golem), the exhibition is dedicated to an extraordinary team of illustrators from Orecchio Acerbo, a publishing house of children’s fiction renowned not only for the number of awards received in this field (many are the Andersen Awards it boasts), but also for having various works involving Jewish history and tradition in its backlist.
In Sala Carmi, more than 50 original pieces by Alice Barberini, Isabella Labate and Maurizio Quarello lead us with their poetry through the tale of the Golem of Prague, but also through the vicissitudes of children called to defend their imagination from the darkest side of the story.
 
Translated by Marta Gustinucci and revised by Annadora Zuanel, students at the Advanced School 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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LIVRES

La maison des souffrances

“La pauvre fille était bouleversée, car elle savait très bien ce que signifiait d’être sur la liste des Juifs. Elle n'arrêtait pas d’avoir des visions de Drancy et des terribles camps polonais ; lorsque le gardien la ramenait, plus morte que vivante, à la prison, elle ne put plus résister à l’émotion et la peur, qui étaient les raisons pour lesquelles elle s’effondra dans une violente crise de nerfs “.
En novembre 1943, Camille de Hody et sa femme, qui étaient membres actifs de la résistance antinazie française, sont dénoncées et faites emprisonner. Le couple est reclus dans la prison militaire de Clermont-Ferrand, constituée d’une humanité hétérogène, faite de criminels marqués d'une croix gammée, de collaborateurs locaux et d'autres détenus en attente d’un sort qui s’annonce tragique pour beaucoup d’entre eux. Comme dans le cas de cette “  pauvre fille “, qui n’était pas en réalité juive et dont Geneviève écrira plus tard dans ses mémoires.

Traduction de Sofia Busatto, révisée par Klara Mattiussi, 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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ITALICS

Vatican Comments on Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ About a Jewish Boy Forced to Convert 

By Nick Vivarelli*

Marco Bellocchio’s drama “Kidnapped” that reconstructs the true tale of a Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Rome, has opened strongly in Italy following its Cannes launch.
The revered Italian auteur’s film about Edgardo Mortara, who in 1858 was taken away from his family in Bologna to live in the Vatican – after it surfaced that the boy secretly been baptized a Christian – has also sparked debate and prompted the Vatican to comment the abduction for which Pope Pius IX has been held responsible.
“Kidnapped” over the weekend bowed in third place at the Italian box office, placing itself after “The Little Mermaid” and “Fast X” and pulling a handsome more than €550,000 ($587,000) intake to date from roughly 300 screens.

*This article was originally published on Variety on 31 May, 2023.

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