Giovanni Vigna
By Giovanni Vigna
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Fast Forward Italian Jewish communities look to digitize 35,000 Jewish texts
MANTUA, Italy (JTA) — A new initiative aims to digitize some 35,000 Jewish texts sitting in the hands of 14 different Jewish community organizations and 25 state institutions across Italy. Around 10,000 volumes have already been digitized as part of the Italya Books project, an initiative of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, the National…
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Fast Forward Mantua, Italy, to get Jewish museum on burial site of 17th-century Kabbalist masters
MANTUA, Italy (JTA) — After years of disagreement, local officials and Italy’s umbrella Jewish group reached an agreement to turn an armory built on top of a centuries-old Jewish cemetery into a “House of Remembrance” museum. The Jewish cemetery of San Nicolò is located in Mantua, a small northern Italian town in the Po Valley…
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