{"id":92302,"date":"2022-02-24T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92302"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:47:59","slug":"16-05-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=92302","title":{"rendered":"Mantua, Italy, building Jewish museum on burial site of Kabbalist masters"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Mantua, Italy, building Jewish museum on burial site of Kabbalist masters<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

GIOVANNI VIGNA\/JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Jewish cemetery of San Nicol\u00f2 is located in Mantua, a small northern Italian town in the Po Valley with a Jewish history dating back to the 12th century.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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\nA neglected armory in Mantua, Italy, will become a “House of Remembrance” to spotlight the town’s Jewish history. \/ (photo credit: GIOVANNI VIGNA\/JTA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

After years of disagreement, local officials and Italy\u2019s umbrella Jewish group reached an agreement to turn an armory built on top of a centuries-old Jewish cemetery into a \u201cHouse of Remembrance\u201d museum.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish cemetery of San Nicol\u00f2 is located in Mantua, a small northern Italian town in the Po Valley with a Jewish history dating back to the 12th century. The graveyard was built in 1442 with the approval of the noble Gonzaga family, who reigned over Mantua during the Renaissance era. It served the needs of the small local Jewish community until the 18th century and is believed to be the resting place of at least two famed Italian kabbalist masters: Rabbis Menachem Azariah da Fano and Mosheh Zacuto.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Holocaust, the Nazis turned the area into a makeshift concentration camp. It later fell under the jurisdiction of the Italian military before being handed back over to local Mantua leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the graveyard is covered by unkempt grass and shrubs and surrounded by five warehouses from its dark 20th-century past that have fallen into disrepair.<\/span><\/p>\n

The municipality has planned on renovating the area for years, but a group of rabbis, some of whom are affiliated with the Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada \u2014 a consortium of Haredi Orthodox groups that aims to preserve Jewish cemeteries around the world \u2014 argued that the plan would destroy the cemetery and its soil. They clashed not only with local municipal leaders, but also with Emanuele Colorni, president of the Jewish Community of Mantua, who believed they were holding up the process for unnecessary religious reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n

A view inside one of the abandoned warehouses at the site. (credit: GIOVANNI VIGNA\/JTA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the people Mantua leaders negotiated with was Rabbi Chizkiya Kalmanowitz, who acted as a delegate of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities group, or UCEI. He also has both American and Israeli citizenship and was arrested in Israel in 2012 for trying to steal bones from an archaeological site outside of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

A new feasibility plan, agreed upon by municipal officers and UCEI, has arranged for a renovation of the warehouses in a way that does not tamper with the soil. All walking surfaces and the series of buildings \u2014 including an eco-friendly hostel and a center for people with disabilities \u2014 will be raised above the ground. The graveyard will be fenced off.<\/span><\/p>\n

The House of Remembrance, which will spotlight the history of Jews in the region, will be housed in a Hapbsurg-era armory on the site.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted in every way to find a solution to redevelop the neighborhood after decades of decay and neglect, by respecting the history of the place, strongly marked by the religious dimension,\u201d said Andrea Murari, a municipal city planning counselor. \u201cConstant confrontation has led us to design a better project, culturally richer than the initial one. It\u2019s essential that a splendid area of the town is finally recovered.\u201d<\/span>
\nThe project, which is funded by 6.5 million euros from the Italian government, will start in March and conclude by 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kalmanowitz did not offer comment on the agreement. Colorni repeated his criticism of the Orthodox rabbis who had inserted themselves into the debate from outside of the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy for the conclusion of the negotiation \u2014 what bothers me is the interference of the rabbis who presumed to modify the project,\u201d he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. \u201cThe designers had to patiently meet Kalmanowitz\u2019s claims. The rabbis want to impose Jewish law, which has nothing to do with Italian laws.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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