Italy and the Alyah Beth, a conference by Simonetta Della Seta

The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to Italy and the Alyah Beth, a conference by Simonetta Della Seta.

Alyah Beth (literally the second ‘ascent’) is the name of the operation organized by the Jewish Agency to save the Jews Holocaust survivors and bring them to the Land of Israel (then the British Mandate). An epic in which Italy earned a special role. After the Second World War and the tragedy of the Shoah, Italy did indeed become, especially for its geographical position, the place of passage of the Jews who survived the Holocaust and who were trying to reach Palestine, or at least a safe place. Hundreds of thousands of lost men, women and children, without a family, a house or a reference crossed several borders to reach Italy, hoping to escape the ghosts of the past and to find a way to the sea through which recover, and perhaps, have a better life.

Simonetta Della Seta is a scholar and a journalist specialized in the History of the Middle East and in the History of the Jewish People. She graduated in Political Sciences in Rome under the guide of Prof. Renzo De Felice, a worldwide expert on Italian Fascism. She worked with him on several researches on the relationship between Fascism, the Jewish Communities of the Mediterranean countries and the Jewish National Movement. Della Seta speaks Italian, English, Hebrew, French, Spanish and Arabic. She is married with musicologist Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca and is mother of two children, Gad and Hanna.

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