A Judaic studies center will be established at the University of Milan, it was announced last week.
The Goldstein-Goren Judaica Center for the Study and Knowledge of Jewish Culture will form part of the university’s philosophy department and will begin operations in February.
Courses will be taught by Italian professors as well as visiting scholars.
The center’s creation was made possible by the Tel Aviv-based Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Foundation, a family foundation headed by 91-year-old Avram Goldstein-Goren, a Holocaust survivor from Romania who has lived in Milan since the end of World War II.
“I think that it is the duty of Jews to place their patrimony of ethics and thought more broadly at the disposition of everyone, regardless of religion,” Goldstein-Goren said at last week’s ceremony in Milan announcing the center.
“It is a patrimony inspired, for the faithful, by the Lord, but developed across the arc of many centuries with much human labor and suffering.”
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