An international conference :”Dentro e fuori ghetto. Vita e cultura ebraica a Siena in età moderna.”
It takes place in the morning at the State Archives, and in the afternoon at the Siena synagogue.
From a perspective combining social and cultural history, this conference will focus on the study of Jewish societies and cultures within the Siena ghetto (XVIth-XIXth centuries), as much as on the consideration of Sienese Jews’ individual experiences outside the ghetto, in the middle of the Tuscan Catholic world, both in the city of Siena and in the broader context of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The diversity of Jewish populations in the ghetto, their condition of legal minority, their socio-economic vulnerability as much as their cultural perseverance, will be among the research subjects presented in the course of the conference.
Organized by the State Archives of Siena and the Jewish Community of Florence in collaboration with the EHESS in Paris (Centre des Recherches historiques), this event will bring together around fifteen specialists in Jewish studies as well as in legal, social, cultural and economic history. The proceedings of the conference will be published in 2021.
PROGRAM
Archivio di Stato di Siena, 9:00-13:00
Saluti istituzionali, 9:00-9:15
Introduzione: Davide Mano, Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS, Paris, Dentro e fuori ghetto: per una storia degli ebrei a Siena, 9:15-9:45
Il patrimonio ebraico senese: un panorama su fonti e beni culturali, 9:45-11:15
Anna Di Castro, Comunità ebraica di Firenze, Sezione di Siena, Il patrimonio ebraico senese: dal ghetto alla dispersione (XVI-XX sec.)
Ilaria Marcelli, Archivio di Stato di Siena, I documenti senesi: da un raffronto fra i fondi ebraici di Toscana
Ariel Viterbo, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Kol sasson me‘ir tehilà – Una voce di gioia dalla città gloriosa. Fonti senesi alla Biblioteca Nazionale d’Israele
Pausa caffè, 11:15-11:30
Il ghetto senese: complessità socio-economica e minorità giuridica, 11:30-13:00
Michele Cassandro, Università degli studi di Siena, Gli ebrei a Siena prima e dopo il ghetto. Aspetti economici e sociali
Michaël Gasperoni, Centre Roland Mousnier, CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Paris, La popolazione e le famiglie del ghetto di Siena in età moderna
Mario Ascheri, Università degli studi Roma 3, Problemi giuridici degli ebrei in Toscana a fine Seicento: da un libro fortunato
Pausa pranzo
Sinagoga di Siena, 14:30-17:30
Tradizioni e culture nel ghetto senese: musiche e apparati rituali, 14:30-16:00
Enrico Fink, Polonsky visiting fellow, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, Shochant Bassade (Tu che abiti nel campo): musiche della tradizione senese nelle registrazioni di Leo Levi
Gabriele Mancuso, Medici Archives Project, Firenze / Polonsky visiting fellow, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, L’introduzione del repertorio musicale colto nel ghetto di Siena: modalità, stilemi e forme paradigmatiche di esecuzione musicale
Dora Liscia Bemporad, Università degli studi di Firenze, Onorare il Signore. Il rinnovamento della sinagoga e il suo apparato rituale
Pausa caffè, 16:00-16:15
“Commerci” dentro e fuori ghetto: interazioni e legami, conflitti e divieti, 16:15-17:30
Patrizia Turrini, Archivio di Stato di Siena, Tra conflitti e interazioni: le attività economiche ebraiche dentro e fuori il ghetto di Siena (fine XVII- XVIII sec.)
Floriana Colao, Università degli studi di Siena, “Commercio d’Ebrei con Cristiani”. Aspetti della giustizia criminale toscana dall’età tardo medicea-lorenese ad una Causa celebre di Giovanni Carmignani
Conclusioni e saluti
For further information see:
http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?6991
http://www.archiviodistato.siena.it
www.firenzebraica.it
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See details and program at web site
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After almost twelve months of work, the History Festival begins the telling of these “Small Histories”, bringing both them and a wide selection of projects from the project’s Heritage Hub to a wider public.
The program brings together story tellers, academics, our volunteer researchers and the research team, to paint a picture of Jewish life and heritage spread wide across the country, in towns and countryside.
Jewish Heritage Europe is delighted to be one of the partners of this event!
Click here to see the program and register for the online events
The Symposium on Swedish Synagogue Architecture (1795–1870) and the Cultural Milieu of the Early Jewish Immigrants to Sweden will take place on Zoom, on April 19, 2021.
It is organized by the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, the University of Potsdam, and the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, with the support of the Stockholm Jewish Museum.
To attend, click this link to register:
The opening presentation will be of particular interest, an overview by Daniel Leviathan of his PhD dissertation project, “Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Nordic Countries 1684-1939.”
Besides Leviathan, speakers will include Vladimir Levin and Sergey Kravtsov, of the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem; Ilia Rodov of Bar Ilan University; Maja Hultman, of the Centre for European Research and Department of Historical Studies at University of Gothenburg Centre for Business History in Stockholm; Mirko Przystawik, of Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, Technische Universität Braunschweig; Yael Fried, of The Jewish Museum of Stockholm; and Carl Henrik Carlsson, of The Hugo Valentin Centre, Department of History, Uppsala University.
A Zoom seminar about the project to restore the Jewish cemetery of Gorizia, Italy, that now lies across the border outside Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The twin cities will jointly be the European Cultural Capital in 2025, with their shared Jewish heritage playing a role. In Italian
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Read our 2017 article about the shared Jewish heritage of the towns
Read an Italian perspective about the project
A one-day international online conference called “Jewish Crossroads: Between Italy and Eastern Europe” organized by the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The close contacts between Italy and eastern Europe have evolved over the centuries and Jews have been an integral part of this relationship.
The most known examples of Italian influences on eastern European Jews are the construction of synagogues in Poland and Lithuania by Italian architects; Jewish medics from Italy practicing in noble east European courts; or the selling of Hebrew books printed in Italy.
The interaction obviously was in the opposite direction: many Polish and Lithuanian rabbis moved to Italy or transferred their texts to be published there; the Council of the Four Lands sent emissaries to Rome; and many eastern European Jewish artists spent years in Italy.
The conference is planned to concentrate on those contacts and interactions, during the Early Modern and Modern periods.
The conference will be conducted in English. The keynote lecture will be given by Prof. Ilia Rodov of Bar-Ilan University.
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The event is held within the program of Ferrara’s annual Jewish Book Festival.
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Some conference talks will be in English; most will be in Italian. A Green Pass (proof of COVID vaccination) is required to attend the conference.
Click here to see the conference program
Info in italiano (dal sito del Goethe Institut):
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Dalla fine degli anni Novanta, in concomitanza con una violenta ondata di antisemitismo che ha accompagnato la caduta del Muro di Berlino, alcune tra le poche Sinagoghe europee sopravvissute hanno riaperto i battenti come centri per l’arte contemporanea. La prima è stata quella Stommeln in provincia di Colonia. Su quel modello, dal 2002 la Sinagoga di Ostia antica ospita la biennale di arte contemporanea “Arte in Memoria”, curata da Adachiara Zevi, organizzata dall’Associazione Arte in Memoria, che ogni due anni invita artisti da tutto il mondo a creare un lavoro originale per il luogo.
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Sharing the catacombs. Religious interactions in funeral spaces of Rome, 3rd-4th centuries CE
A round-table of interational scholars, in Italian and English, about Jewish and Christian catacombs in Rome.
To register for Zoom attendance, go to https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/it/tavola-rotonda/19933/
Program:
H17:00-17:15 – Caroline Bridel, Introduzione
H17:15-17:45 – Giandomenico Spinola (Musei Vaticani), La necropoli vaticana della via Triumphalis: tra religione e superstizione
H17:45-18:15 – Giancarlo Lacerenza (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Ebraico e aramaico negli epitaffi delle catacombe ebraiche di Roma: segni di plurilinguismo o marcatori identitari?
H18:15-18:30 – Pausa
H18:30-19:00 – Norbert Zimmermann (Deutsche Archäologisches Institut), Space, tombs, images: Experiencing Christian Catacombs of Rome
H19:00-19:30 – Discussione moderata da Caroline Bridel
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