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Liliana Picciotto Following the controversy on Yad Vashem's decision to change the text on Pius XII in its permanent exhibition, Liliana Picciotto of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan offered an overview on the Vatican's attitudes and actions vis-�-vis the persecution of the Jews. An internationally respected Holocaust scholar, Picciotto, in this informative and balanced essay, provides a vast array of primary sources from the Vatican's diplomatic archives and sheds light on the complex issues surrounding the decisions of the Church. Read
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PRESS REHABILITATING FASCIST CRIMINALS
From The New York Times
Recent historiography has persuasively demonstrated that the anti-Jewish racial laws of 1938 were not Mussolini's concession to Hitler, but instead the culmination of Italy's own racist policies. These policies began in the 1920's, during the bloody "pacification" of Libya, escalating with the 1935-36 conquest of Ethiopia and culminating with the racial laws of 1938, later brought to their most violent manifestation by the Italian Social Republic in 1943. The one person that can be said to embody the entire spectrum of Italian racist policies - from Libya to the Italian Social Republic - was General Rodolfo Graziani, Marquis of Neghelli. Read
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PROGRAM THE HOLOCAUST IN ITALIAN CULTURE
September 13 at 6 pm - Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim�, 24 W 12 St., NYC
Robert Gordon (Cambridge University) in conversation with Stefania Lucamante (Catholic University of America). Moderator: David Forgacs (New York University).
Already before 1943, Italy was both part progenitor of and collaborator in genocide, and part uncertain fellow-traveller, even filibusterer. After 1943, this already uncertain status was made notably more so as Mussolini fell, Italy withdrew from the Axis and found itself split in two. Italians became victims of the whole gamut of Nazi violence, although the rump Fascist state in the North was also an active perpetrator of deportations and massacres and the racial bureaucracy of the former Fascist state was still in place to aid and abet the deportation process. Robert Gordon and Stefania Lucamante will discuss the elements that shaped the representation of Holocaust in Italy. Read |
EXHIBITIONS THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies, Columbia University.
In 1862, Temple Emanuel purchased 2,500 rare books and 45 manuscripts from Fredrich Mueller, a rare book dealer in Amsterdam. This collection was made up of the libraries of important scholars, including Rabbi Yaakov Emden of Altona (1698-1776), a famous Talmudist and Kabbalist; and Guiseppe Almanzi of Padua (1801 - 1860), a bibliophile and poet. The Almanzi library included books from the library of Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (HIDA, 1724 - 1806), a rabbi and scholar who traveled the world collecting and researching Hebrew rare books and manuscripts. The Almanzi collection was also used by the great scholar and bibliographer Morris Steinschneider and Leopold Zunz. In 1892, the Temple Emanuel board made the decision to donate the library to Columbia. Read
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