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The 17th-century Holy Ark of the synagogue of Vercelli on display at 'Houses of life: Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy' at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, 2023. (Courtesy/ Luca Gavagna)
September 17, 2023, 3:57 am
‘Renaissance’ of Italian synagogues and cemeteries showcased at Ferrara Jewish museum
‘Houses of Life’ collects documents and artifacts on 2,000 years of Italian Jews, puts spotlight on renovations underway at Jewish sites
By Giovanni Vigna
Illustrative: A woman enters a building where stumbling stones, engraved with names of Jews killed by the Nazis, are seen in front of the entrance, in Rome's Ghetto Jewish neighborhood, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
August 16, 2023, 5:05 am
Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’
To solve a diplomatic dispute with Germany over civil suits for Nazi crimes, Italy decides to pony up – but Jewish community members say the government is trying not to pay out
By Giovanni Vigna
Detail from 'I'm Still Alive,' by Roberto Saviano, illustrated by Asaf Haunka. (Courtesy Boom! Studios)
November 12, 2022, 2:39 am
Hunted by the mafia, Italian author teams up with Israeli artist in graphic memoir
In new cooperative work ‘I’m Still Alive,’ Roberto Saviano and Israeli Asaf Hanuka depict the author’s life on the run since famously exposing the Camorra crime syndicate
By Giovanni Vigna
A neglected armory in Mantua, Italy, will become a 'House of Remembrance' to spotlight the town's Jewish history. (Giovanni Vigna/JTA)
January 7, 2022, 4:11 pm
North Italian town to establish museum at burial site of 17th-century Kabbalists
Small Jewish community existed in Mantua up till the 18th century; agreement comes after years of dispute between local officials and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group
By Giovanni Vigna
The Naviglio canal in Canneto sull'Oglio at the turn of the 20th century. The water drop can be seen behind the children. (Courtesy)
October 15, 2021, 1:38 pm
How the hydroelectric genius of Einstein’s dad lit up an Italian town in 1899
The mill in Canneto sull’Oglio is again generating green energy, over a century after Hermann Einstein made the village one of the first in its region with electric streetlamps
By Giovanni Vigna
Linda Laura Sabbadini. (Photo courtesy of Italian President's Office)
March 31, 2021, 3:44 am
The new G20 women’s group leader is an Italian Jew who revolutionized statistics
Gender studies pioneer Linda Laura Sabbadini re-envisioned her field through a human lens; now she’s advocating on behalf of women to the world’s most influential heads of state
By Giovanni Vigna
Emanuele Di Porto speaks about his experience in a Zoom conference. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2021, 4:39 am
Four Italian Holocaust survivors tell how they escaped death on ‘Black Saturday’
Ahead of a January 27 online preview of the Rome Shoah Foundation Museum’s new exhibition, volunteers who usually travel Italy speaking to schools share their stories with ToI
By Giovanni Vigna
Gracia Nasi in Antwerp in a scene from 'The Wandering Jewess,' story by Gianluca Piredda and art by Leo Sgarbi. (Courtesy Piredda)
November 21, 2020, 9:15 am
Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics
The true story of Gracia Nasi, whose courage and charity helped countless hidden Jews like herself during the Inquisition, is retold in ‘The Wandering Jewess’
By Giovanni Vigna
The site of the Fosse Adreatine massacre of 1944 has become a memorial to the 335 victims buried in the disused quarries. (Italian Defense Ministry)
August 15, 2020, 8:46 am
After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing
Two of those who died in 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre, in which 335 were killed in reprisal for a partisan attack on an SS regiment, can now finally be honored by families
By Giovanni Vigna
Illustrative: A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Jewish Museum of Venice. (Credit: Porcel)
July 13, 2020, 11:00 pm
Renovation brings Venice Jewish Museum into future, visitors into 16th century
The $10 million project is self-financed by the city’s Jewish community and will inject new life into the central complex; includes an immersive replica of ancient ghetto housing
By Giovanni Vigna
A view of the ICU of the emergency field hospital that is being set up outside Cremona hospital, northern Italy, March 20, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
March 26, 2020, 5:59 pm
‘My father died alone and now I can’t even comfort my mother,’ says Italian Jew
Italy is now leading the world in COVID-19 related deaths, but funerals are forbidden. Our writer describes how Jewish communities mourn — and live — under lockdown
By Giovanni Vigna
In this photo taken March 12, 2020, an elderly woman wearing a mask waits to enter a deli meat and cold cuts shop in Codogno, Italy. The northern Italian town that recorded Italy’s first coronavirus infection has offered a virtuous example to fellow Italians, now facing an unprecedented nationwide lockdown. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
March 13, 2020, 3:57 pm
At a center of global pandemic, Italy’s Jews contemplate Passover under lockdown
Strict measures barring travel and congregating affect some 60 million people across the country; synagogues in Milan and Venice are closed; Jewish life frozen for now
By Giovanni Vigna
Fabio Penazzo, a hotel manager in Venice's Jewish ghetto, says God helped keep the damage to a minimum in record-setting flooding last November. Photo taken on December 28, 2019. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)
January 17, 2020, 5:53 am
Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood
November’s record deluge caused an estimated billion dollars in damage citywide, but the historic enclave central to a close-knit community got off relatively easy
By Giovanni Vigna
Giuseppe Minera next to two tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Ostiano, Italy. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)
November 8, 2019, 5:10 am
In Italy, a good Samaritan restores a Jewish cemetery abandoned for centuries
Giuseppe Minera, a retired artisan and carpenter from a neighboring town, has cared for the historic graveyard in Ostiano since 1987, and recently started work on others nearby
By Giovanni Vigna
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