Presentation of the new book by Adam Smulevich “Presidenti – Le storie scomode dei fondatori delle squadre di calcio di Casale, Napoli e Roma”, edited by the publishing house Giuntina, with the author. The study of the journalist with Florentine roots narrates the story of three influencial protagonists of Italian football, the founders of Casale, Napoli and Roma. They became victims of antisemitism.
With Elisabetta Rossi Borenstein
Katharina Adler reads from her first novel "Ida" at the Synagogue in Meran. Katharina Adler ist the greatgranddaughter of the factory owner Philip Bauer, who, during his longer stays in Meran assumed the role of the president of the Königswarter Foundation in Meran. In this function Philip Bauer also financially contributed to the construction of the Synagogue and the Jewish sanatorium.
The presentation of "Quando la patria uccide" was introduced by the journalist, writer and blogger Toni Jop, born in Venice, working in Rome, but living also in Meran for many years. Contributions are made by the contemporary witnesses Cesare Finzi and Bruno Laufer, by Silvia Cevidalli, daughter of Aziadé Gabai, born in Meran in 1924, who cannot take part herself in the event, Chief rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and the authors Sabine Mayr and Joachim Innerhofer.
On Tuesday, 4 September 2018, the book "Quando la patria uccide" was presented at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and of the Shoah MEIS (Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah) in Ferrara. Participation of Prof. Cesare Finzi, physician and former head of the department of cardiology at the hospital of Faenza, author and contemporary witness, the witness Bruno Laufer, whose family survived by hiding, the violinist Prof.
Presentation: Sabine Mayr and Joachim Innerhofer
Acknowledging the sufferings of the victims of the Shoah, expressing solidarity to survivors, making visible former Jewish property and huge financial losses, these were the driving forces motivating Sabine Mayr and Joachim Innerhofer to compile the commemorary book „Mörderische Heimat“ and to make it available in Italian in 2016. On 11 April 2018 "Quando la patria uccide" is presented in the book shop Claudiana in Milan. With Franca Avataneo, Prof. Lydia Cevidalli, Prof. Cesare Finzi, Prof. Maurizio Goetz, Prof.
Welcome: Elisabetta Rossi-Borenstein
Introduction: Joachim Innerhofer, Jüdisches Museum Meran
Presentation of the book „Educare all’odio. L’antisemitismo nazista in tre libri per ragazzi“ (Cierre Edizioni, Verona, 19,50 EUR), a critical edition of three children's books of the Nazi period.
