Events

The IHRA Grant Strategy supports projects which aim to safeguard the historical record (including sites, testimony and archival materials) of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma and which counter distortion.  The projects IHRA funds are in the field of education, remembrance and research. Do you have a project idea that you think would fit? […]

MEIS exhibition is being re-installed and reopens on October 2nd, but the library in Via Piangipane 81 knows no rest: it is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 to 6 pm, and on Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. It collects over 3,500 volumes on Judaism, […]

From the 2 of October the exhibit Jews, An Italian Story of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah is confirmed in its main themes and in the first thousand years. MEIS reopens with a new layout, marked by the presence of many works already on display. In fact, thanks to the generosity of the lenders, more than half […]

Rosh HaShanà, New Year’s Day, literally means “Head of the Year“. The word shanà, which means “year”, comes from a root linked both to repetition and renewal. The year returns, transformed, as human beings change and transform. The Jewish New Year is marked by two days of solemn celebration at the beginning of the Jewish month of Tishri. Central […]

On Tuesday 4 September, at 5 pm, MEIS (Via Piangipane 81, Ferrara) will host the presentation of Quando la patria uccide (When homeland kills). It’s a collection of stories of Jewish families from South Tyrol, found by authors Sabine Mayr and Joachim Innerhofer (Raetia Edition, Bolzano, 2016). Shoah victims from South Tyrol were monitored and expelled by fascist authorities, and most of them […]

In these days, Ferrara holds the record for the hottest city in Italy? Come to MEIS to stay cool! Let’s call it fate – the Museum is located in the former prison of the city –, but in Via Piangipane 81, with the exhibition “Jews, an Italian story. The first thousand years” and the multimedia […]

MEIS organises a meeting to raise awareness of the important cultural contributions that Sinti and Roma, as well as other minorities historically discriminated and persecuted, make to the Italian society. The event is held on Friday, July 27, at 11:00, within the bookshop of the Museum (Via Piangipane 81, Ferrara). Free entrance. Program: Opening addresses Michele Campanaro, Prefect of FerraraChiara Sapigni, Councillor for Health, Personal Care […]

On Thursday, July 5, at 6:00 pm, within the cycle of meetings Gallery Talk. Discovering MEIS exhibition itinerary,the Museum houses Anna Foa (Sapienza University of Rome), who delivers a speech on the topic Jews, Christians and the Church.  The talk starts from the exhibit Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years (Foa is one of the curators), with the introduction of […]

On Thursday, June 14, at 6:00 pm, within the cycle of meetings Gallery Talk. Discovering MEIS exhibition itinerary, the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah houses the lesson on Talmud Treatise Berachot by Rabbi Gianfranco Di Segni, translation Coordinator for the Talmud Project. An explanation of the technology used for the Italian translation of the Babylonian Talmud, by David Dattilo, Manager of […]

SHALOM ITALIAFilm by Tamar Tal Anati Thursday, May 10th – 11.00 amLiceo Statale Giosuè Carducci (Via della Canapa, 75-77 – Ferrara)Free entry Shalom can be translated as “peace”, but it is a word that Jews use at the same time as a greeting and a as a wish: “May you find peace”. And this is […]