event
Wednesday 22 November 2023 6.30 PM - 7.30 PM

talkCase di vitaSinagoghe e cimiteri in Italia

Graziella Lonardi Buontempo hall
free admission subject to availability
event in Italian

Starting from the exhibition’s catalogue of the same name, a talk on the two sacred places par excellence of the Italian Judaism’s history.

The architecture of synagogues and cemeteries encompasses a diversity of implications and meanings. It reveals the complex relationship between a minority and a majority in Italian society. It recounts the progressive construction of a sense of community, the moments of everyday life and the rites of passage that mark the life cycle. It stimulates still open debates on the existence or non-existence of a “Jewish” architecture.

introduction and moderation
Dario Disegni President of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah-MEIS and President of the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy

speakers
Margherita Guccione Grande MAXXI Scientific Director
Andrea Morpurgo curator of the exhibition
Franco Purini architect
Amedeo Spagnoletto Director of the MEIS and curator of the exhibition