An exhibition on 2,000 years of Jewish life and art in Italy will open at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara on March 18, following its highly successful presentation at the Jewish Museum in New York last fall.
The exhibition features archaeological treasures, priceless ritual objects, tiles, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs.
All bear witness to the two millennia of Jewish habitation of the Italian peninsula, the longest continuous Jewish presence in the Diaspora.
The displays come from public and private collections in Italy, France, the United States, Britain and Israel.
The exhibition in Ferrara will contain a section not included in New York, which pays tribute to Jewish participation in the anti-fascist movement before World War II and in the resistance during the war.
The display will also have a new name. In New York, the exhibition was titled “Gardens and Ghettos.”
In Ferrara, where it will be on display for three months, it will be called “It Tal Ya,” a play on the words “Italia” and Hebrew for “island of divine dew,” from Genesis.
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