“My name is Hila, I am 26 years old. On October 7, I had a shift at the Nova festival from 11:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m.” Thus began the testimony of two Israeli girls who survived the slaughter perpetrated at …
Hosted by the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome and organized by the historian Marcello Pezzetti, the exhibition “The Enemy Race” compares the Nazi antisemitic propaganda with the Fascist one. The exhibition is built around stereotypes and distorted interpretations of historical …
Two students graduated last week obtaining a Union of the Italian Jewish Communities university degree in Jewish studies. In her paper Miryam Bahar offers an in-depth study on “proverbs in Judeo-Spanish with words in Turkish in the Ottoman Empire.” Sandro …
En 1933, la Unión de las Comunidades Israelitas Italianas se puso en contacto con el experto de Galitzia Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) y le encargó un estudio sobre las comunidades judías del territorio italiano para que evaluase la consistencia del patrimonio …
“One day I stayed away rather too long, wandering around on the city walls with a gang of boys I’d made friends with, who gave me rides on the bars of their bikes, and when I got home I found …
A counseling service to reflect and exchange with others on the impact that the October 7 had on our lives. It’s the “Resilience Desk, first opened in late February in Milan for students, parents, and teachers of the Jewish Community’s …
On October 18, 1943, Rome’s police chief Giovanni Travaglio informed the Ministry of the Interior that the train “with 28 wagons” in which were crammed the more than 1,000 Roman Jews captured in the previous hours by the Nazi-Fascists had …
“Jews in twentieth-century Italy,” the newly opened exhibition at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEIS in Ferrara, begins with Italian Jews’ acquisition of full rights at the end of 19th century, retraces the troubled events …
“La casa sul Nilo” (“The House on the Nile”) by Denise Pardo and “Under the Jujube Tree” by Gila Almagor (Acquario publisher) are the winning works of the 24th edition of the Adei Wizo “Adelina Della Pergola” literary prize in …
Du Musée d’Art Juif Italien Umberto Nahon au Musée des Terres de la Bible, la sixième Biennale de printemps en cours à Jérusalem (10 mars – 29 avril) compte plus de vingt sites. Elle se trouve partout dans la capitale …
Los Maestros enseñan que “todas las fiestas algún día se anularán, mientras que los días de Purim permanecerán eternamente”. Por lo tanto, el Purim constituye una celebración especial en la tradición judía. Igual de especial es la historia de su …
The first volume was published in 2012: La scomparsa della sesta Scola (“The disappearance of the sixth Synagogue”), written by Giancarlo Spizzichino. The author reconstructed the little-known history of the Portaleone synagogue, also known as “the Sixth Synagogue,” located in …
“Sotah” (Suspected adulteress) will be released in bookstores on March 22. This is the tenth tractate of the Babylonian Talmud to be translated into Italian in accordance with the memorandum of understanding signed in 2011 by State institutions and the …