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EVENTS JEWISH-VATICAN RELATIONS: TODAY AND YESTERDAY
March 27 | 6 pm | CUNY Graduate Center | 365 5th Av., Skylight Room
Dr. Riccardo Shmuel Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome will appear at the Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center to discuss the status of Catholic-Jewish relations. Centro Primo Levi interviewed him.
"Before the arrival of the first Christian missionaries Jews had already lived in Rome for two centuries. They've remained in the city ever since. This is a unique occurrence in the history of the Jewish Diaspora, especially vis-�-vis their relationship with the Christian world. Because of their position on the frontlines - as it were, and considering those two thousand years of close proximity, Roman Jews can be seen as a laboratory for everything that is problematic as well as all that is positive in Catholic-Jewish relations". Read
EVENTS HEROES, SAINTS & THE RIGHTEOUS: THE CASE OF GIOVANNI PALATUCCI April 2 | 6 pm | Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim� | 24 W 12 St. Marco Coslovich (Historian and author of Giovanni Palatucci: A Righteous Memory) and Mordecai Paldiel (former Director of the Institute for the Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem and professor of History of the Shoah at Stern College). Moderator: Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi). Read |
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PRINTED MATTER DELASEM, THE UNHAILED ORGANIZATION THAT SAVED THOUSANDS OF JEWISH REFUGEES
Alessandro Cassin interviews Donato Grosser From Hitler's raise to power in 1933 up to the early 1940's, Italy was one of the few countries that accepted - both officially and trough legal-loopholes - thousands of foreign Jews fleeing persecution in their countries. The survival of these refugees (the majority of whom was interned in camps or sent to force residency in small towns) would have been unimaginable without the help of Italian Jewish relief organizations. Read |
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ARCHIVES RECONSTRUCTING THE HISTORY OF DELASEM
Klaus Voigt, Liliana Picciotto
During the German occupation of Italy the archives of Delasem (Delegazione per l'Assistenza agli Emigranti), the aid organization of Italian Jewry founded in December 1939, went missing. They had been kept initially in the main offices of Delasem in Genoa. Later, after November 1942, parts of them had been transferred to Villa Emma in Nonantola, near Modena. All that remains now are the papers of Lelio Vittorio Valobra, the organization's director, dealing with Delasem's activity while in exile in Switzerland. The author of the present essay submits a proposal for a research and documentation project, which aims at "reconstructing" the lost archives by gathering and cataloguing all the items of Delasem's extensive correspondence that are to be found in various archives both in Italy and in other countries. Read
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OPINIONS SACRIFICING THE JEWS FOR CHRISTIANITY
Sergio I. Minerbi, Haaretz, 2008
The Catholic Church's decisions regarding the beatification of its saints should not concern the Jews. One exception to this rule is the case of Pope Pius XII, who headed the Church while the Holocaust was ravaging World War II Europe.
What is at stake here is the Catholic perception of the Shoah - the worst nightmare in Jewish history, during which six million of our people were murdered. For Catholics, according to Pius XII (who reigned 1939-1958), it was a period during which the Church was a victim of Nazism. Read
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BOOKS CLASSICS & NEW
Susan Zuccotti, Under His Very Windows, 2000
Eric Cymet, History vs. Apologetics, 2012
Robert G. Weisbord, The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations, 1991
Giacomo Debenedetti, Eight Jews, 2001
Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms in Papal Rome, 2011
Kenneth Stow, Theater of Acculturation, 2001
Leonard Rutgers, The Jews in Late Ancient Rome, 2000
Paula Fredriksen, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, 2000
Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome, 2011
Luca Fiorentino, The Ghetto Reveals Rome, 2005
Elsa Laurenzi, Le catacombe ebraiche, 2012
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