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ing the audience during the com-
memoration of the 70th anniversary
of Auschwitz liberation.
"If you are a Jew today," said the
filmmaker and founder of the USC
Shoah Foundation, "you know that
we're once again facing the perennial
demons of intolerance. Anti-Semites,
radical extremists and religious
fanatics who provoke hate crimes —
these people want to, all over again,
strip you of your past, of your story
and of your identity ... causing Jews
to again leave Europe." (World Jewry
Digest, January 2015).
It seems, I thought, that southern
Italy — and especially my beloved
Sicily — prove to be different, once
again trying to recreate the once and
future world of acceptance and mul-
ticulturalism.
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September 17 • 2015
From top to bottom:
A detailed drawing depicts figures with Jewish names that
identify them as the 12 tribes of Israel, Abraham, Moses, his
brother Aaron, Adam and Eve, all coming out of the mouth of
a giant menacing-looking fish with a big cross on its head..
The Garden of the Righteous is a memorial garden dedicated
to those around the world who saved their Jewish neighbors
during the Holocaust.
Jewish Renaissance in Palermo was a conference dedicated
to the Jewish history in Sicily that took place inside the City
Archives in 2014. A professor from the University of Palermo
reads the infamous Edict of Expulsion at the conference.
Courtesy of the Sicilian Institute for Hebrew Studies.
Palermo's City Archives building was built in the 19th century
on the part of the site of the Great Synagogue.
A klezmorim concert at the City Archives during Jewish
Culture Week in September 2014.
Courtesy of the Sicilian Institute for Hebrew Studies.
Palermo, Sicily.