Italian Jews in the Resistance
January 19th at 5:30 pm
Centro Bibliografico UCEI - Lungotevere Sanzio, 5 - Roma
Program
Book presentation
Jews in the Piemontese Resistance 1943-1945 (Zarmorani, 2010)
by Gloria Arbib and Giorgio Secchi
Film screening
Il Ragazzo di Via Sacchi
directed by Francesco Momberti
Roundtable
Jews in Politics and the Resistance
Anselmo Calò, Guri Schwarz, Tullio Levi
Moderator: Victor Magiar
Website of the Centro Bibliografico of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities
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The Centro Bibliografico was created in 1983 through the vision and efforts of Tullia Zevi. The aim of the center was to create a national project for the collection, conservation and cataloguing of the Italian Jewish archives and libraries. The CB promotes a vast range of cultural initiatives dedicated to Jewish history and culture as well as research projects in cooperation with other Italian archives. Among the recent achievements is a catalogue of 16th century Hebrew books and a database of testimonies on the anti-Jewish legislation of 1938.
Archive
Historical archive of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (1911-1950), the archives of the Jewish communities of Pitigliano and Senigallia (17th-20th cent.), the archives of Samuel David Luzzatto (19th cent.), a collection of ketubboth (16th-19th cent.) and the papers of Augusto Segre and Isacco Artom.
Library
With a collection of 25.000 between printed books and manuscripts, the library of the CB received the holdings of many small Jewish communities that no longer exist or had no way to preserve and make them available. These include the libraries of Pitigliano, Pisa, Ferrare, Senigallia, Mantova and Siena, a small collection of 16th-19th century manuscripts, incunabula and printed books from Florence, and 15,000 books of the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano.
Photographs
The photo collection includes a broad range of community photographs from the 1940s and 1950s as well as documentation of Jewish sites in Italy.
