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Asher Salah
Asher Salah, PhD (2004), INALCO, Paris and Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Fellow of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. His publications on Italian Jewish literature of the eighteenth century, include: La République des Lettres : Rabbins, médecins et écrivains juifs en Italie au XVIIIè, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2007 and, on cinema, “Tradizione e modernità nel cinema israeliano”, in Ebraismo, D. Bidussa & M. Luzzatto (eds.), Einaudi, Torino, 2008.
Jews In Italian Cinema
An Invisible Minority
- Sunday 2:00 PM–3:15 PM Room 229
In the course of the last decade, Jews and Jewish themes are increasingly visible in Italian films. Following the international success of Roberto Benigni’s 1997 film, Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella), many TV series and movie productions have integrated different Jewish themes and characters. Asher Salah of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design will explore this topic by asking such questions as: How are Jews and Jewish topics being represented in Italian cinema? Which periods of Italian Jewish history receive greater or lesser focus and why? And what might be the reasons for this intriguing development?
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