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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE “MAURIZIO AND CLOTILDE PONTECORVO” RESEARCH GRANT

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE “MAURIZIO AND CLOTILDE PONTECORVO” RESEARCH GRANT

Events18.06.2020

Foundation of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (“MEIS”) announces a call for applications for a two-year research grant on the topic of “Women in the history, culture and education of Italian Jews”. Pubblication date: 20/03/2020 Applications and research projects must be received at the Fondazione MEIS offices no later than 1:00 […]

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We Are Here

We Are Here

Events11.06.2020

Join the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEIS  and 135 other museums and cultural institutions around the world for “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope” on Sunday, June 14 at 8:00 PM. Featuring award-winning media personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Adrien Brody, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, and Tiffany Haddish, world-renowned singers […]

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Jewish Italian Partisans, Young Resistance Fighters

Jewish Italian Partisans, Young Resistance Fighters

Events30.04.2020

They were youths, some studying at university, others still at their school desks. They were interested in love letters, writing short stories, going out with friends. In 1938, with the enactment of the racial laws, they were alienated from society, expelled from the universities and schools, and excluded from public life. These young people had […]

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Passover 5780 the long road to Freedom

Passover 5780 the long road to Freedom

Events07.04.2020

The night between the 14th and 15th of the month of Nissan (this year coinciding with the 8th of April, after sunset) marks the start of Pesach, one of the most important and meaningful festivals of Judaism. Pesach recalls the Jewish people’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt, their exodus and dramatic crossing of the Red Sea — to freedom […]

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The latest MEIS’ exhibit “Ferrara ebraica” is now online

The latest MEIS’ exhibit “Ferrara ebraica” is now online

Events03.04.2020

The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara is temporarily closed because of the Coronavirus emergency. However, we remain committed to spreading the knowledge about Italian Jewish history and culture. Therefore, we are going “virtual.”The latest MEIS’ exhibit devoted to the Ferrara ebraica/Jewish Ferrara, one of the most important Jewish communities of […]

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A concert for the 20th anniversary of the European Day of Jewish Culture

A concert for the 20th anniversary of the European Day of Jewish Culture

Events12.09.2019

The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Holocaust-MEIS in partnership with the Jewish community of Ferrara and the National Committee for the Centenary Celebrations of Primo Levi’s birth, will host a concert dedicated to Levi’s poetry. The Concert will be on September 15th (7.30 pm) at the Sala Estense. The theme of this year’s […]

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Female Voices from the Jewish Renaissance – Tuesday, July 25, 2019

Female Voices from the Jewish Renaissance – Tuesday, July 25, 2019

Events19.07.2019

MEIS BOOKSHOP (5.00 pm, free entrance) Four women, all of Sephardic heritage, will be united for the first time. The sole  purpose of this ingathering is to give a new life and a new voice to Jewish women of the Renaissance. Our guests will bring to the MEIS old traditions, new ideas, philosophy, science and […]

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Jewish women and the world of art in Ferrara and in Mantua during the Renaissance

Jewish women and the world of art in Ferrara and in Mantua during the Renaissance

Events05.07.2019

On July 11th (18:00 pm at MEIS Bookshop) Andreina Contessa, Director of the Historical Museum and Park of the Castle of Miramare (Trieste), and earlier Chief Curator of the U. Nahon Museum of Hebrew Italian Art in Jerusalem, will shed new light Jewish women who became art patrons, dealers and clients during the Renaissance.  She will focus […]

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European Association of Jewish Choirs. A gala concert on Sunday 30th

European Association of Jewish Choirs. A gala concert on Sunday 30th

Events28.06.2019

The 7° edition of the European Jewish Choir Festival, organized by the Ha-Kol Choir of Rome and the European Association of Jewish Choirs (EUAJC), will end on Sunday 30th (8.30 pm, free admission with allocated seat. Tickets can be picked up at the Theatre ticket office starting at 7.00 pm) with an amazing gala concert hosted by the Municipal […]

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June 27-30, the seventh edition of the European Jewish Choir Festival in Ferrara

June 27-30, the seventh edition of the European Jewish Choir Festival in Ferrara

Events11.06.2019

The seventh edition of the European Jewish Choir Festival will be hosted in Ferrara from Thursday, June 27 – Sunday, June 30, 2019. The Festival is organized by the Ha-Kol Choir of Rome and the European Association of Jewish Choirs (EUAJC), at the invitation of the MEIS and the ‘Claudio Abbado’ Municipal Theater. For days, the Theater and the Museum in Via […]

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The Renaissance at MEIS. Summer program 2019

The Renaissance at MEIS. Summer program 2019

Events31.05.2019

THE RENAISSANCE SPEAKS HEBREW The exhibit, curated by Giulio Busi e Silvana Greco, addresses one of the key periods in the cultural history of the Italian Peninsula, a time that was decisive in forming the Italian identity. And it reveals a completely original aspect: the presence of the Jews and the fruitful dialog with the Christian majority. Significant […]

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May 19, 2019 – Jewish Book Festival: letters, books and personalities, from the Renaissance to David Grossman

May 19, 2019 – Jewish Book Festival: letters, books and personalities, from the Renaissance to David Grossman

Events06.05.2019

Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara) PROFILES OF ITALIAN JEWS – free admission 9:30 a.m. Gabriella Steindler Moscati, La mia vita incisa nell’arte. Una biografia di Emma Dessau Goitein (Mimesis, Milan, 2018). The author speaks with the art historian Martina Corgnati 10:15 a.m. Marcella Filippa, Rita Levi Montalcini. La signora delle cellule (Pacini Fazzi, Lucca, […]

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The Renaissance speaks hebrew

The Renaissance speaks hebrew

Events15.03.2019

From 12th April to 15th September MEIS hosts the exhibit The Renaissance Speaks Hebrew, by Giulio Busi and Silvana Greco. The exhibit addresses one of the key periods in the cultural history of the Italian Peninsula, a time that was decisive in forming the Italian identity. It also reveals a completely original aspect: the presence of the Jews and […]

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27th-29th November, Shoah world experts meet in Ferrara

27th-29th November, Shoah world experts meet in Ferrara

Events26.11.2018

During the year of the Italian presidency, the city of Ferrara is hosting the second annual plenary assembly of the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), from the 27 to the 29 of November. The intergovernmental organization is formed by the delegation of 31 member countries as well as several observers and international partners. IHRA’s purpose is […]

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25th November, Batsheva Dance Company in Ferrara. Dance and Jewish culture at MEIS

25th November, Batsheva Dance Company in Ferrara. Dance and Jewish culture at MEIS

Events21.11.2018

Sunday, 25 November, MEIS and the Teatro Comunale organize a talk with Roberto Casarotto on “Dance in Jewish Culture“, taking advantage of the presence in Ferrara of the Batsheva Dance Company, and within this year’s dance season.  Casarotto has been project director for the Center for Contemporary Scene in Bassano del Grappa and for Operaestate Festival Veneto. […]

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26th October, “Ad Alta Voce” at MEIS

26th October, “Ad Alta Voce” at MEIS

Events11.10.2018

“Ad Alta Voce”,the festival organized by Coop Alleanza 3.0, takes place every year in symbolic places, urban spaces to meet and confront the voices and thoughts of contemporary authors. The theme of the 2018 edition is “Origins”. Friday, October 26, at 10.30, the theologian Vito Mancuso, the physicist Alessandro Treves and the psychologist and scholar of Cabalà Daniela Abravanel will dialogue […]

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15th October, “The new frontiers of Jewish-Christian dialogue” at MEIS

15th October, “The new frontiers of Jewish-Christian dialogue” at MEIS

Events04.10.2018

Monday, October 15, at 17.30, the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEIS welcomes the thirty-second edition of “Spirit of Assisi”, born in 1986 thanks to the Community of Sant’Egidio. As part of the “Ponti di Pace” international event, the meeting “The new frontiers of Jewish-Christian dialogue” is held at MEISHOP (Via Piangipane 81, […]

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Sunday 14 October, 19th European Day of Jewish Culture in Ferrara

Sunday 14 October, 19th European Day of Jewish Culture in Ferrara

Events03.10.2018

On Sunday, October 14, on the occasion of the 19th European Day of Jewish Culture, the Jewish Community of Ferrara, in collaboration with the MEIS, offers a rich program of initiatives inspired by the theme for 2018: “Storytelling“. A reference to the very origins of Judaism, that root into the ‘stories’ narrated in the Torah, the […]

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October 13 and 14, “Monumenti Aperti” at the MEIS

October 13 and 14, “Monumenti Aperti” at the MEIS

Events02.10.2018

This year the event is devoted to the Twentieth century in Ferrara. For two days – on Saturday 13 from 10:00 am to 6:00 and on Sunday 14 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm – the students from the classes 2D e 2Y of the local “G. Perlasca Comprehensive School” will guide the pubblic to the discovery of the former prison in Via Piangipane. From the […]

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Chag Succot Sameach, happy Feast of Huts!

Chag Succot Sameach, happy Feast of Huts!

Events23.09.2018

“And in the succoth (huts) you will reside for seven days” (Leviticus, 23:42). Succot, Feast of Tabernacles or Huts, marks a week of pure joy in the Jewish calendar. It begins on the 15th of the month of Tishri, 5 days after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and belongs to the Cycle of Solemn […]

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