The Jewish Museum of Bologna hosts a presentation of the book “The Synagogues of Carpi” by Matteo Cassani Simonetti (BUP, Bologna 2023). The event will feature the author, who is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, along with Marzia Luppi, Former Director of the Fossoli Camp Foundation, and Vincenza Maugeri, Former Director of the Jewish Museum of Bologna.
Admission is free.
Carpi is a town in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located within the province of Modena. Earlier this year, the town’s Old Synagogue was fully restored after being seriously damaged in the 2012 earthquakes. Click here to read more in the JHE article from April 2024.
For Italian speakers — architect and architectural historian Andrea Morpurgo gives a talk about the symbolic, stylistic and ritual evolution of synagogue architecture in Italy — “Dalle Scole al Tempio: un racconto dell’evoluzione simbolica, stilistica e rituale dell’architettura sinagogale în Italia.”
The talk comes within the context of the Più libri più liberi — More Books, More Free” book fair.
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