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The Renaissance Of Italian Jewry

Season's Greetings
and Best Wishes

By D. KLEINLERER

(Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)

Italian Jewry, once one of the most which has chiefly philanthropic, aims.
virile and powerful branches of the I In Florence the same organization has
ancient Jewish tribe began from the I a slightly Zionistic tendency, but on
middle of the nineteenth century I the whole nothing much is being
steadily to deteriorate numerically achieved as the leaders of this move-
to encounter great ditficul-
and culturally, toll not long ago it up- meld Lave

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M-artt.d initiative of the not too num-
her of the Jewish nation. The coun-
erous workers.
try which has produced great Jewish
Oil Paintings, Water Colors and
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thinkers, men who had contributed to
Etching..
perseeutions of the Jews in Eastern
all branches of Jewish and genern1
Europe, increasing waves of anti-
of Fine
knowledge, the country in which Ile- Semitism, the upbuilding work in Pal-
I signers 11041 Mlliotita
brew literature had reached its high- e-tine, and the Zionist activity all over
M irrors and Piot ore Fi'nin'g.
est point of development by the work
and the world have awakened to national
of the Rabbinical schools of It
consciousness the hearts of smile of
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Florence, Leghorn and Padua, etc., the more active workers in Italian
was losing all contact with the other
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Jewry.
parts of Jewry.
In 1910, Signor Felice Ravenna
In Rome, that ancient city which founded in Bologna the first commit-
had seen our forefathers driven tee of the Zionist Federation of Italy.
through the streets by Titus and The committee had to undertake a pio-
which still preserved the triumphal tierring task which nearly broke the
arch which he had put up as the sign strength of its few members.
of his triumph over the unhappy Ju-
A new committee was elected at
dea, apostacy had remved trim Jew- the Trieste conference. At the same
ry its most ancient families. After conference a special National Fund
IS70 when the victorious Italian are committee was elected which has al-
mit: had put an end to the Pupal rule, ready achieved considerable results.
the Roman Jews had been liberated Professor David Prater, secretary of
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from their crooked narrow ghetto the Jewish National Fund for Italy.
streets and in their daily contact with has in the last few years carried
the rest of the population they had through a truly missionary activity
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forgotten their independent Jewish Unwearied, he has journeyed from
national existence. Enjoying full town to town, appealing to the na-
equality of rights after the years of tional conscience of the Jew, dis-
humiliation and persecution, the Jews tributing J. N. F. boxes and collect-
of Italy embraced a ideal; the
ing money.
ideal of becoming Italians. "We are
One of the must important events
Italians of the Jewish faith," they de- in the Jewish renaissance movement
clared. "Our native country is glor- in Italy, however, was the congress of
ious Italy, our language is the beauti- the Jewish youth which was held at
-
ful Italian, our culture is the culture Leghorn in November 19 0 _1. This con-
of Dante, tetrarch and Michel-An- Kress was one inspired with the great-
est of enthusiasm. It was a kind of
gelo."
To some, Judaism was still an old confession of the erring Jewish youth
and venerable relic of the past which which had found its way back to its
of
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uither's knee and to the sorce
they cherished together with other an-
as
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worthless ballast which they hastened the speech made by the aged president
to throw overboard. Italian Jewish of Ilia Federation of Jewish Commun-
youth looked all Judaism as some- ities of Italy, Angelo Sereni.
"Youth," he addressed the confer-
thing exotic, sonwthing which had lost
all its meaning, and had no justifica- ence, "he a comfort to those who art
about to leave this life. Ile a symbol
tion for survival.
A very vigorous assimilation move- of the immortality of the Jewish Na-
ment was thus set afoot, which it tion!"
The impression)node tip this speech
seemed would S0011 put nn end to the
old
existence of Italian Jewry. In the was indescribable. One saw an
father
confessing his sins to his chil-
last 10 years the number of apostacies
and mixed marriages reached incred- dren and warning them away from
ible heights: sometimes the situation the path which had misled him.,
The congress at Leghorn passed a
became ludicrous. For instance, when
the daughter of the president of the number of very important resolutions
Jewish community of Venice was mar- embodying the ideals of the movement
ried to the leader of the Catholic par- for the rebirth of Jewish national life
ty, many- of the Jewish communities in Italy. It founded the Federation
i Italy sent telegrams of greeting of Jewish Societies which has clubs
and congratulation to the father of and libraries in the big cities, and it
is engaged in organizing classes for
the bride and to the young couple. An-
the study of Hebrew language and
other case; one of the most reverend
T
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f Italian Jews is called up to te or- literature.
The publishing houseIsrael in Flan ,
h on Yom Kippur and involkes the
ence is under the editorship of Pro-
blessing fur his two Catholic aons-tn-I
law. I fessor Dante Dittos issuing Italian
Yet even before the war, there were translations of the classics of modern
Jews who Ilebrew literature.
still left in Italy a few -
Which only
would have none of this assimilation I Its weekly organ, Israel,
and who were determined to fight a little while ago was rarely sen, is
against it with all their strength. now selling Limo copies a week and
They may be considered the fathers mil by all Jew ish families in Italy.
f the present einerging Jewish ran- The progress which has been made
o
aissance in Italy. They were Carlo by Italian .1a-wry in the course of only
Amadym Donati, Felice Ito- a Ow years surpasses the most san-
Cahill:01i,
-enna, Dante Lattes and a few others, guine hopes which had been enter-
the so-called quad-twined by its pioneers.
representatives of
its'-Jew's ("Ebrei Qualititivir Their' The renaissance of Italian Jewry is
umbers all told do not reach al, now a living fact. The half-dead
n score. They form the kernel of a Jew-', limbs of the Jewish Conimunity in D-
national organization in Italy : sly have revived and are again active.
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eyes today, the achievements of scraper. Ile looked for a development
American Jews. is a striking exam- with an idea of its own.
ple of the lack of foundation of
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