In the Christian cemetery of this sleepy farming town on the spur of Italy’s boot, Lucia Leone looks up at a row of tombs marked incongruously by Stars of David.
The Talmud will be translated for the first time into Italian thanks to an official collaboration between the Italian government and the Italian Jewish community. A protocol launching \”Project Talmud\” was signed Friday in Rome by cabinet ministers, the president of Italy\’s National Research Council, the president of the umbrella Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and Rome\’s chief rabbi. The project foresees the translation of the original Aramaic version of the Babylonian Talmud, with commentaries, as well as an introductory volume about the structure, contents and language of the Talmud.
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