Online event, Corresponding Art
After five years, the #ItaliaEbraica project is renewed and becomes Jewish Italy around the world. Each month we will get to know a new museum and discover the paths that connect distant places with our ‘Jewish Italy.’
Each International Jewish Museum will present online on Zoom an object or a masterpiece from its collection that tells a part of Italian history.
The second meeting will be held on Zoom on Thursday, December 11 at 6:30 PM (Italian Time) and will feature the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. This lecture will present a phenomenon of mutual artistic influence between the Jewish communities in the Land of Israel and Italy—an “artistic correspondence” in the genre of representations of the holy sites in illuminated manuscripts.
The most prominent and oldest example of this genre is the Florence Scroll, a monumental 11-meter scroll documenting the pilgrimage of an Egyptian Jew through the holy sites in the Land of Israel in the 14th century.
Greetings from Amedeo Spagnoletto – Director of MEIS
Speaker: Rachel Sarfati, Chief Curator Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The meeting will be in English with simultaneous translation into Italian.
If you want to attend the event, click here and fill out the form
Other news
November 26, online event
After five years, the #ItaliaEbraica project is renewed and becomes Jewish Italy around the world. Each month we will get to know a new museum and discover the paths that connect distant places with our ‘Jewish Italy.’Each International Jewish Museum will present online on Zoom an object or a masterpiece from its collection that tells […]
The Mortara Case
TUESDAY 22 JUNE – 7 pm (CEST)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE “MAURIZIO AND CLOTILDE PONTECORVO” RESEARCH GRANT
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 […]
We Are Here
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 […]
Jewish Italian Partisans, Young Resistance Fighters
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 […]