Jewish Ferrara || JR Issue Launch, Autumn 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Jewish Ferrara || JR Issue Launch, Autumn 2025

The beautiful north Italian city of Ferrara has been a hub of Jewish life and culture for centuries. Watch as we discover its fascinating medieval and Renaissance history, when it became a rare beacon of sanctuary for Jews fleeing the Inquisition. In more recent times, the writer Giorgio Bassani used Ferrara as a backdrop to trace the shock-by-shock impact of the rise of fascism on the city's Jews, most famously in his novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Today, it is home to a tiny, but active, community and is the base for the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), which tells the story of Italian Jewry, as well as Italy's experience of the Holocaust. Guest speakers: – Amedeo Spagnoletto, director of MEIS; – David Abulafia, author and emeritus professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. This event originally took place Tuesday 28 October 2025. To attend a future JR event, visit jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events.