Guided tours of Jewish heritage in Lecce, at the tip of Italy’s heel. Tours include the medieval Jewish quarter and museums.
Reservation is required — see the attached poster for details.
Guided tours of Jewish heritage in Lecce, at the tip of Italy’s heel. Tours include the medieval Jewish quarter and museums.
Reservation is required — see the attached poster for details.
A guided walking tour of Rome’s Jewish ghetto area, including the Jewish museum and Great Synagogue, led by an art historian.
The exhibition Dentro e Fuori (Inside and Outside) which will cover Jewish life in Italy at the time of the ghettos and to emancipation will be inaugurated on April 2.
A guided walking tour of Jewish heritage in Genova. The tour wil take place outdoors (so it won’t enter the synagogue) and social distancing will be maintained.
The number of places is limited to 12 people — and reservations are mandatory.
Information and reservations: genovatracce@gmail.com
WhatsApp/SMS Fabrizia Scortecci +393498091682;
Lidia Schichter +393284222168
A guided tour of the Jewish cemetery.
Reservations are required — the number of participants is limited, and COVID hygiene measures will be taken; people must wear face masks.
Guided walking tour of the medieval Jewish quarter of Perugia.
There are four opportunities — at 11 and 11:30 a.m. and at 3:30 and 4 pm.
Mandatory reservation.
A local theatre organizes a walking tour of Jewish history and heritage in Gorizia, including the synagogue, former ghetto — and the Jewish cemetery, across the border in Slovenia. Participants will wear headphones and as they walk will hear a dramatized presentation keyed to places they are seeing, which will tell stories of people and their experiences linked to the city’s Jewish history.
Participants must reserve, and they also must wear face masks and follow social distancing measures.
On Sunday, October 25 — there will also be a tour at 10 a.m.
A local theatre organizes a walking tour of Jewish history and heritage in Gorizia, including the synagogue, former ghetto — and the Jewish cemetery, across the border in Slovenia. Participants will wear headphones and as they walk will hear a dramatized presentation keyed to places they are seeing, which will tell stories of people and their experiences linked to the city’s Jewish history.
Participants must reserve, and they also must wear face masks and follow social distancing measures.
On Sunday, October 25 — there will also be a tour at 10 a.m.
A discussion sponsored by the American Academy in Rome: (AAR)
The first Conversations/Conversazioni of the calendar year will feature David Nirenberg (2021 Resident), the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he is also dean of the Divinity School, and AAR Director Avinoam Shalem (2016 Resident).
“Ghetto” emerged as a word to describe a specific late-medieval phenomenon: the creation in Christian cities of segregated and walled neighborhoods in which Jews were required to live. Today its meanings are vaster, and it serves as a metaphor for many different types of containment and segregation. How did these urban spaces emerge? Why did they prove so useful as marginal spaces and a metaphor? And what work do the phenomenon and the metaphor do today?
This conversation, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public. Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The start time of this lecture is 6:00pm Central European Time (12:00 noon Eastern Time). It is being recorded and will be edited and posted on the AAR website at a later date.
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