May-July 2018, MEIS program

SHALOM ITALIA
Film by Tamar Tal Anati

Thursday, May 10th – 11.00 am
Liceo 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 exactly what pushes three elderly Italian Jewish brothers to return to Tuscany, after seventy years, looking for the cave where they were hidden during fascism.A journey through memory, and a true story, told by those who lived it.
Presented by the Director of the MEIS, Simonetta Della Seta, and by the President of Ferrara Contemporary History Institute, Anna Quarzi

GARDEN OF QUESTIONS HOSTS “INTERNO VERDE”
Garden Talk

Saturday, May 12th, 19th, 26th and Sunday, May 13th, 20th, 27th – 10.00 am-18.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEIS (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)

MEIS Garden of Questions is included in “Interno Verde” program, the event that opens to the public the most evocative and curious gardens in the heart of the city. It will be possible to walk along the paths of laurel, myrtle, thyme, lavender and marjoram (the aromas used for the Havdalah, the prayer that ends Shabbat). The small labyrinth, with its information panels, teaches basic notions about the Jewish food laws and shows the ingredients of some kosher recipes.
This year seven new trees belonging to the biblical species will be planted in the Garden of Questions to celebrate the 70th birthday of the State of Israel.
For the public of “Interno Verde”, free visit to the Garden of Questions and discounted admission (€ 8.00) to the exhibition Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years and to the multimedia show With the Eyes of the Italian Jews

ETHICS AND MITZVOT
Fundamentals of Judaism

Sunday, May 13th – 4.45 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Lecture by Alberto Avraham Sermoneta, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Bologna, on Ethics and Mitzvot
Organized by the Union of the Jewish Communities of Italy – UCEI, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Ferrara

COUNTING THE OMER

Thursday, May 17th – 6.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Lecture by Luciano Meir Caro, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Ferrara, on The Count of the Omer: from Exodus to the Law. Jews and Judaism between Pesach and Shavuot

JEWS IN ANCIENT ROME

Gallery Talk. Discovering the Museum
Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years

Thursday, May 24th – 6.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Lecture by the archaeologyst Fausto Zevi, Professor at La Sapienza University in Rome
With expert Elsa Laurenzi, Director Olga Melasecchi and Councilor Gianni Ascarelli on behalf of the Rome Jewish Museum

JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL IN FERRARA

Sunday, June 10th – 10.00 am-18.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Guided tours of the exhibition Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years and book presentations with the authors: 

• 10.00 am Mauro Perani, Rabbi Luciano Caro and Laura Graziani Secchieri, Nuovi studi su Isacco Lampronti. Storia, poesia, scienza e Halakah, Giuntina-MEIS, Firenze, 2017 
• 11.30 am Donatella Di Cesare, Marrani, Einaudi, Torino, 2018
• 2.00 pm Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, Napoli, via Cappella Vecchia 31. Voci ebraiche da dietro il vicolo, Salomone Belforte, Livorno, 2018
• 3.00 pm Lia Levi, Questa sera è già domani, Edizioni E/O, Roma, 2018

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara (Corso Martiri della Libertà, 5)
Free entry

• 5.00 pm Greetings by the Authorities
  5.30 pm Lectio magistralis by Abraham B. Yehoshua on Hebrew and the Books
  Introduced by Director Simonetta Della Seta

THE SANCTUARY AFTER THE SANCTUARY
Berachot, Talmud tractate translated into Italian

Thursday, June 14th – 6.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Lecture by Rabbi Gianfranco David Di Segni, Translation Coordinator of the Talmud Translation Project
With the Director of the Project, Clelia Piperno

THE JOURNEY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA
Gallery Talk. Discovering the Museum
Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years

Thursday, June 28th – 6.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Giulio Busi, Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin, on The Journey of Beniamino da Tudela and the Jewish culture in the Italian Middle Ages

THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE, THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS
Gallery Talk. Discovering the Museum
Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years

Thursday, July 5th – 6.00 pm
Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah – MEISHOP (Via Piangipane, 81 – Ferrara)
Free entry

Lecture by exhibition curator Anna Foa, Professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, on Jews, Christians and the Church