Beth Hillel's Rome cultural program
Aimed at a conscious belonging to Judaism, cultural activity, which is an integral part of the work of our community, is supported by in-depth and multifaceted information, aimed in particular at developing the issues that concern us more closely.
For us at Beth Hillel Rome it is important both to build a network of contacts with leading personalities from the cultural world, and to create the conditions to involve our public through creative, physical and artistic work. Our initiatives also follow an open tradition capable of continuous transformations.
Since our community was born – it was February 14, 2014 – we have carried out an intense cultural activity, aimed at our members and the people who follow us. The restrictions due to the health emergency from Covid 19 forced us to reshape the offer of religious services and cultural events in remote mode. We were afraid that we would not make it, that it would not be possible to keep a community together by communicating remotely through an impersonal videoconferencing software program. Instead, not only have we managed to overcome the obstacle, but we have intensified the offer of our services, in order to keep the community together. This sort of compensation for the social isolation imposed by the pandemic has also given rise to intense cultural activity since 2020, which is developed along five main strands:
- awareness and knowledge of the Jewish tradition;
- the past and present of the Jewish world in some of the countries of origin of our members;
- memory;
- workshop proposals with the active participation of community members;
- books and extemporary.
EVENTS IN PROGRESS
The Jewish Contribution to Philosophy and Other Sciences
The Jewish contribution to the visual arts
the program opens in 2021-2022 with an exhibition on the painter Eva Fischer
EVENTS CARRIED OUT
CYCLES OF CONFERENCES ON JEWISH REFORM (2020-2021)
We have created a first cycle of five online meetings in collaboration with the Association of Hebrew-German Studies “Ayn-T” entitled:
THE JEWISH REFORM BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT FROM MOSES MENDELSSOHN TO OUR DAY. FIVE ONLINE MEETINGS TO KNOW OUR ROOTS
Click here to download the complete program of the conference cycle.
Click on each poster to follow the video recording of the conferences
Conference ” The Haskalah and Moses Mendelssohn”, Prof. Roberta Ascarelli
Conference “Judaism as a science and theology: Leopold Zunz and Abraham. Geiger”, Prof. Giuseppe Veltri
Conferences “Reform in the United States”, Prof. David Levy | “Reconstructionist Judaism and Humanistic Judaism”, Federico Ariel D’Agostino
Conference “The Jewish Reform in Italy, Prof. Bruno Di Porto
Conference “Jewish Reform in Israel”, Rav Joel Oseran (the recording of the conference is not available at the moment)
SCHEDULED EVENTS
Concert-conference “Jewish Argentina” (date and time to be defined) The United States of America and Canada (date and time to be defined)
The Soviet Union and other countries already “beyond the curtain” (date and time to be defined)
EVENTS CARRIED OUT
November 8, 2021, h 7pm, presentation of the volume by Elissa Bemporad (CUNY University of New York) “Blood inheritance: Jews, pogroms and ritual murders in the Soviet Union”, Castelvecchi, Rome 2021. Meeting with the author Elissa Bemporad and with Antonella Salomoni, professor of History of the Shoah and genocides, University of Bologna.
download the invitation with the program (in Italian)
7 DECEMBER 2020 – “The Jewish vote in the USA
NOVEMBER 18, 2020 – Jews in Europe at the dawn of the new millennium, meeting with the demographer Sergio Della Pergola
EVENTS TAKEN IN 2021
On April 19, 2021, on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, we organized a meeting with Wlodek Goldkorn.
Event registration is not available.
On January 27, 2021 we celebrated the Day of Remembrance in collaboration with the Biennale of contemporary art (ARTEINMEMORIA). Speakers: Ada Chiara Zevi and the artist Paolo Icaro (event registration is not available).
With the active participation of community members
EVENTS TAKEN IN 2021
Midrash workshop (theoretical elaboration by Federico D’Agostino; theater and performance workshop inspired by the Jewish tradition; the cycle, already presented online, will begin as soon as the health and general situation allows for face-to-face meetings).
Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetics Exercise Classes: a series of meetings to explain (the first theoretical meeting took place online in 2021), show and practice the exercises developed by the American psychologist and therapist, founder of one of the most interesting branches of psychological therapy. The cycle will begin as soon as the health and general situation allows for face-to-face meetings.
EVENTS TAKEN IN 2021
(CLICK ON THE POSTER TO SEE THE VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE EVENTS)
21 JUNE 2021 – 21 June 2021, via Zoom Presentation of the book ❝We partisans. Memorial of the Italian Resistance❞ by Gad LERNER and Laura GNOCCHI – Feltrinelli Publisher.
17 JUNE 2021 – Anti-Semitism-Anti-Semitism Conference, with the participation of Elissa Bemporad, Giorgio Gomel, Pamela Harris, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera
MAY 24, 2021 – Presentation of Edith Bruck’s latest book Il pane perduto with the participation of the writer
APRIL 26, 2021 – Presentation of the book by Roberto ATTIAS: “Io e la mamma”. Semi-serious drama for castrating mother and son dog actor – Efesto Publisher
10 FEBRUARY 2021 – Presentation of the book by Ugo Foà, “The child who could not go to school”, Manni Publisher, 2021
