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Memories of the Jews of Rome: Beyond persecution and deportation
Monday, February 1 | 6:00 pm
CONFORTORIODirected by Paolo Benvenuti (Italy, 1992, 90 min. Italian w/English subtitles). Free
NYU Casa Italiana Zeilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street Admission: free | program detailsA story of trials and forced conversions in papal Rome
Based
on a true story, Confortorio narrates the vicissitudes of two young
Roman Jews who are imprisoned under the accusation of theft during the
pontificate of Clement XII, in 1736. The night before their execution,
the fathers of the Confraternita of San Giovanni Decollato try to force
them to embrace Christianity.
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Tuesday, February 2 | 7:30 pm
UNA STORIA ROMANA (A Roman Story) A filmed interview with Enrica Sermoneta by Pupa Garribba, 2009 (Italian w/English subtitles)
JCC of Manhattan | 334 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC | Tickets
The most recent document and probably one of the last testimonies of
the round up of the Ghetto of Rome. Journalist and writer Pupa Garribba
interviews Enrica Sermoneta, who, as a young girl, fortuitously escaped
deportation amidst generosity and betrayal. Told in a direct and
unconventional style, filtered through the lens of 67 years of debate
on the "black Saturday," the story raises old dilemmas and new
questions on those days and ours. A post-screening discussion with Pupa Garribba will follow.
About the speaker
Pupa Garribba was born in Genoa in 1935. Her experience as a Jewish girl in Fascist Italy is narrated in the book La Goventù Offesa by Chiara Bricarelli and in the documentary Le Non Persone by Roberto Olla. She has been editor in chief of Kamenu and Confronti. She is correspondent for the French Jewish magazine Cahiers Bernard Lazare.
She is an interviewer for the Shoah Foundation and collaborates with
the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and the Casa
della Memoria e della Storia in Rome. Pupa Garribba is the author and
curator of Feste Ebraiche (1999) Simboli ebraici (2000), Donne ebree (2001), and Ebrei sul confine (2003), a collection if stories of men and women who live borders and frontiers as places of encounter and exchange.
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Wednesday, February 3 | 6:30 pm
THE GOLD OF ROME By Carlo Lizzani, 1961 (Italian w/English subtitles)
Museum of Jewish Heritage | 36 Battery Place, NYC, Free
The Gold of Rome
is the first film representation of the story of the German blackmail
and eventual deportation of the Jews of Rome. Lizzani's rendition of
situations and characters and his depiction of rituals and places
illuminates the life and spirit of Roman Jewry, setting this
semi-fictionalize document apart from other Holocaust films. With a a
touch of sentimentality and a genuine understanding of the nuances of
the story, The Gold of Rome delves into
the dilemmas, conflicts, and cultural assumptions that lead the Jews of
Rome to fall in what turned out to be a fatal trap.
Marina Melchionda interviewed the director, Carlo Lizzani for I-Italy
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Tuesday, Februar 16 | 5:30 pm
THE JEWISH GHETTO OF ROME
The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Ave. (@118th Street)
Speakers: Prof. Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa, Israel) "Doing as the Romans Do" . . . But Also Staying Jewish: The Challenge of Life in the Roman Ghetto, 1555-1870
Dr. Irina Oryshkevich (Columbia University) Accommodating the Jews in the "New Jerusalem"
Free and open to the public seating is limited and reservations are required: www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
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