Posts by Gabriela Benner
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https://youtu.be/iNX-7TawstI?si=iECIEqeJDMdf8vsK.Kidnapped (Italian: Rapito) is a 2023 Italian-language historical drama **film** co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about **Edgardo Mortara**, a young Jewish boy who was taken from his family by the Papal States and raised as a Catholic. Showing in Portugal now.
Today, 19th April is the anniversary of the start of a series of events where for three days, three thousand Jews in Lisbon lost their lives. I cannot share the video, but if you look on Youtube for "1506"- Lisbon, you will find it in several languages, the original in Portuguese. Very important documentary.
Tonight we gathered as one. We sang the Hatikvah and remembered the victims, their families, our soldiers, and hostages that are still in Gaza: babies, children, elderly, autistic...
Hi everyone. I received my PhD in Heritage Studies - History of Art from the University of Porto. My thesis was about the construction of the image of the Jew in European Art from 13th to 16th centuries. I love teaching and publishing papers about Jewish history, Holocaust studies and antisemitism. I also teach Hebrew in the Porto area and if you come to the city I can show you around as well. I ...