The former British foreign secretary has resigned from the board of a soccer team after it hired an Italian manager who boasted of his fascist sympathies — and once made a Nazi salute during a match. David Miliband stepped down from Sunderland’s board because of remarks that Paolo Di Canio made to Italian news agency…
Cardinal Elia Angelo Dalla Costa, the World War II-era Archbishop of Florence, has been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. In an announcement issued Monday, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem said Dalla Costa was recognized as a righteous gentile earlier this year “for spearheading the rescue of hundreds of Jews in Florence during the Holocaust.” Dalla…
A new Italian women’s group has added its voice to protests over a publicly funded monument honoring the World War II-era fascist leader Rodolfo Graziani. The leadership of Binah, an all-women Jewish party represented on the board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, recently urged Italian Jewish leaders to take urgent measures against what…
A fisherman who took part in the dramatic rescue of about 30 Jews during World War II died this week. Agostino Piazzesi, 87, was the last survivor of 15 fishermen who during the night of June 19-20, 1944 rescued the Jews, who were held by the Germans in a castle on Isola Maggiore in the…
A public prosecutor in Italy has opened an inquiry after a vacationing Jewish-American couple complained about wine with a picture of Adolf Hitler on the label for sale in a shop near Verona. The Forward wrote about the Hitler and Mussolini wines in 2010. Verona prosecutor Mario Giulia Schinaia has opened an investigation into whether…
A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg underlines the influence of Yiddishkeit on his achievement. “Threads and Traces: True False Fictive,” published recently by University of California Press, is an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi. An omnivorous…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed Friday night that seven Israelis were rescued from an Italian cruise ship that ran aground and keeled over near the coast of Tuscany. According to the Ministry, the three couples and one young girl were unharmed by the accident which killed three. The Ministry is unaware of any other Israeli nationals…
What would New York City be without its bagels and pizza? Jewish and Italian cuisines have given this city its most famous culinary staples. This Sunday, the Forward’s food columnist, Leah Koenig, will discuss the intersection of these two food cultures. As it turns out, Rome is one of the oldest continuous Jewish settlements in…
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