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Jewish Cultures Along Via Emilia

A docufilm about some of the Jewish sites along the Via Emilia to retrace traces and currents, migratory flows and personalities, which from the Middle Ages to the present day have built…

Kosher products: the ARI list with photos and a barcode scanner

The Community’s website now has a new service: the list of kosher products approved by the Italian Rabbinical Assembly, easy to use on a phone, with a photo of each pack so you can spot the…

Brief history of the Jewish Community

Bologna, which is a city whose citizens are known for being friendly and welcoming, was characterized in the past not only by the fact that the oldest university in the world was founded…

The Gombruti family and their house: an historical challenge

From Paola Foschi, expert in the History of Bologna The striking beauty of the portico of the Gombruti residence, situated in a rather dark and silent street of Bologna’s city center,…

The Jewish presence in Bologna

Bologna, a city of people sociable and hospitable by nature, was historically characterised not only by its University, but also by its Talmudic academies, its important teachers of the…

Baking "Let's braid challot together" (26 October 2021)

With Clelia Piperno Sermoneta 21.00 on Zoom Write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to receive the login credentials

Presidents, Rabbis and Secretaries from the Immediate Post-War Period to the Present Day

Who has led the Community from 1946 to today: the presidents, the rabbis of the Rabbinical Chair of Bologna and those who taught here, the parnassim of the Synagogue and the secretaries,…

Under the Cinema Stars: Letters from the Archive (12 July)

Piazza Maggiore 21.15 Screening of the docufilm "Lettere dall'archivio" by Davide Rizzo

After the Unification of Italy

"I arrived in Bologna on 30 July 1866 … the number of Israelites amounted to about three hundred…” so we read in the “Autobiografia di un rabbino italiano” by Marco Momigliano, Sellerio…

Rebuilding Fraternity (1 January 2021)

Bologna in World War II

The text below is taken from the book "Bologna nella seconda guerra mondiale" (chapter dedicated to "Bologna e gli ebrei") written by C. Federici, private edition 1993. The book is a…

KKL: A Garden in Israel in Memory of Gastone Cipolli

The Jewish Community of Bologna remembers Gastone Cipolli z.l. with a garden in Israel. Mr Cipolli, together with his wife Lea, was close to our Community for many years, attending and…

Barbarity under the Two Towers – Racial Laws and the Shoah

Written by Lucio Pardo and Carolina Delburgo Download the book

After the Barbarity – The Difficult Return

Written by Lucio Pardo and Carolina Delburgo Download the volume

The Gates of Via Gombruti Reopen

The Jewish Community of Bologna from 1946 to the present day by Ines Miriam Marach

The First Lights of Dawn

The Jewish Community of Bologna after the Liberation by Lucio Pardo The Eve

Memories of a Teacher at the Jewish Middle School of Bologna

By Ines Levi Colla School year 1942-43. First year of middle school. I wouldn't say that the roll call (assuming, for argument's sake, that it was ever taken) took up much time: 1) Franco…

The Jewish Middle School of Bologna in the Memories of a Female Pupil

by Mirella Benzimra Zuckerman 16 teachers and 14 students, behold the Jewish school of Bologna. And among the students of different ages and courses, some in ginnasio, some in teacher…

The Jewish schools of Bologna after the racial laws

The Jewish Community of Bologna from 1938 to 1943 by Lucio Pardo The right and the duty to be educated In the archive of the Jewish Community of Bologna, there is a letter penned on the…

The Curriculum of Studies of a Jewish Student in the Sixteenth Century

The study day One of the main Jewish families of Bologna, in 1500, was the Da Rieti family. Record of them remains at the civic medieval museum in the gravestones of Shabbatay Elkanan Da…

The Jewish Community and the City of Bologna in the Post-War Period

Speech by G. Ottolenghi (President of the Jewish Community of Bologna) during the afternoon event in memory of Bianca Colbi Finzi (8 November 2012) Dear Simona Lembi, President of the City…