Sunday 15 September will be the 25th European Day of Jewish Culture: every year, visitors take up the invitation to visit synagogues and Jewish quarters, attend concerts, go to themed exhibitions, or meet live writers, artists and intellectuals who tell of the Jewish world and culture.
The Synagogue in Via Palestro and the ancient Jewish cemetery in Piazza dei Miracoli open their doors on the occasion of the European Day of Jewish Culture, with a series of events to discover and rediscover the history and culture of a community that has been a protagonist of city life for over a thousand years. The family in Judaism between past, present and future is the theme of the 2024 edition that is treated from various points of view with the meetings in the garden of the Synagogue.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. there will be free guided tours of the Synagogue (Via Palestro 24) and the Jewish Cemetery (Via Carlo Cammeo 2) by CoopCulture and the Jewish community of Pisa. Departures every 30 minutes.
In the garden of the Synagogue a series of events:
- 10:30 a.m. greetings from the institutions with Maurizio Gabbrielli - Jewish Community of Pisa
- 10:45 a.m. presentation of the book ‘Repertorio ragionato della Pisa ebraica’ by Paolo Orsucci Granata, published by Salomone Belforte & C.
- 11:30 a.m. ‘Family portraits: Jewish artists in Italy’ with Davide Spagnoletto
- 12:00 ‘A family through images’ with Dora Bemporad
- 3:30 p.m. Rabbi Umberto Piperno ‘From the four children to the four diners. let us question the family in Jewish tradition, thought and law
- 4:00 p.m. ‘Families as contexts of identity and belonging’ with Silvia Guetta
- 4:30 p.m. ‘Inclusion in Jewish families: between history and contemporaneity’ with Raffaelle Sabbadini
- 5:00 p.m. on contemporary Jewish families with video testimonies. Followed by the debate ‘Judaism and family forms: from the patriarchs to today's Israel’ by Federico Prosperi
