A cool summer? Come to MEIS!

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 show “Through the eyes of the Italian Jews”, a fascinating time travel awaits you in comfortable, air-conditioned rooms.

Don’t miss it!

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The Mortara Case

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

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

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 […]
Passover 5780 the long road to Freedom

Passover 5780 the long road to Freedom

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 […]