143 research outputs found
Poster. Digital visualisation based on the Storyboard of R. Abravanel by Martina Melilli,” Piera Rossetto (scientific supervision), Verena Resch (Graphic design)
No full textUnder the supervision of Piera Rossetto (PI of the research project Europe's InVisible Jewish Migrants, funded by the Austrian Science Fund), Verena Resch, graphic designer, transformed the original artwork Storyboard of Rachele Abravanel by Martina Melilli into a digital product. Melilli’s storyboard, realised on a physical support, with printed pictures and post-it for comments and explanations, had a limited possiblity of circulation. Resch’s challenge was to take the hand-made creation and transform it into something able to cross physical borders.The poster represents, in Rossetto's project framework, a way to engage with the digital turn in doing memory research (Garde-Hansen et al. 2009; Drozdzewski and Birdsall 2019) as well as with the exponential growth of digital projects in the context of the history of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries in contemporary times
Digital Storyboard
No full textUnder the supervision of Piera Rossetto (PI of the research project Europe's InVisible Jewish Migrants, funded by the Austrian Science Fund), Verena Resch, graphic designer, transformed the original artwork Storyboard of Rachele Abravanel by Martina Melilli into a digital product. Melilli’s storyboard, realised on a physical support, with printed pictures and post-it for comments and explanations, had a limited possiblity of circulation. Resch’s challenge was to take the hand-made creation and transform it into something able to cross physical borders.The poster represents, in Rossetto's project framework, a way to engage with the digital turn in doing memory research (Garde-Hansen et al. 2009; Drozdzewski and Birdsall 2019) as well as with the exponential growth of digital projects in the context of the history of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries in contemporary times.Funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) grant n. T 1024-G2
Europe’s (In)Visible Jewish Migrants Final Report 01.10.2018-31.01.2022 FWF Project number: T 1024-G28 Project Leader: Dr. Piera Rossetto
No full textRapporto di ricerca presentato all'ente finanziator
“Mapping Roots, Charting Routes. Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)”, Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development)
No full textDigital visualisation of Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)
The digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes concerns the specific case of Jewish migrations from the Middle East and North Africa to Milan (Italy). It is based on 108 interviews conducted by the CDEC Foundation – Edoth Project (2011-2019) with Jews from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya and Syria, who settled in the city between the 1940s and 1970s. The corpus includes 48 women and 60 men.
Mapping Roots, Charting Routes can be navigated by setting different filters: gender, home community, identity documents, year of settlement in Milan, place and cause of departure. The general map highlights the settlement trip to Milan from the country of origin. By clicking on the individual trajectory, dashed lines display the intermediate trips and an individual portrait opens.
Along with the anonymized personal data of the traveller, the individual portrait includes the countries of origin of the family members, the identity documents they possessed, the languages spoken in the family circle along with the professional activity and the cause of departure. In a future development of the project, more information will be added in this section.
The map is accompanied by a series of graphs and charts which elaborate the information in an aggregated form: according to the home community, that is the country of origin. For instance, the graphs display the correlation between the personal identity claimed by the interviewee with the identity documents possessed by her/his family.
Through this sample of interviews, the digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes attempts to depict the overall complexity of the migratory phenomenon while paying attention to the peculiarity of each journey. It is an attempt to hold the ‘whole’ and the ‘fragment’ in the effort to come closer to the sense people make—and made—of their journey as individuals but also as part of a larger collective.
In a way, this is what digital humanities are about: keeping the human experience at the core while experimenting with computer assisted technologies to elaborate, visualize and connect the data of and about that very human experience.
For data protection reasons, the dataset is not made available to public.
Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development
Shamailang, Una mappa di parole (Audio-documentary by Martina Melilli (Original idea & Writing), Botafuego (Production, Sound design & Writing) and Piera Rossetto (Scientific supervision)
No full textShamailang: Una mappa di parole è un podcast narrativo di cinque episodi che esplora il percorso di vita di Roger Sciama, un ebreo egiziano nato al Cairo nel 1927 ed emigrato a Milano, in Italia, nel 1968. La storia di Roger Sciama è stata raccolta dalla Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) nell'ambito di un progetto di storia orale chiamato Edoth ("comunità etniche" in ebraico) volto a preservare i ricordi della vita ebraica nel Medio Africa Orientale e Nord attraverso le testimonianze degli ebrei nati in quelle regioni e oggi residenti in Italia.
La storia di Roger non è stata solo affascinante ma anche altrettanto imprevedibile, irriducibile e sempre in movimento. Esiste un modo, mi sono chiesta, oltre a quelli accademici più conosciuti, per provare a dare un senso a traiettorie di vita come quella di Roger Sciama, allo stesso tempo uniche e “ordinarie” ?
Il podcast narrativo Shamailang rappresenta un tentativo collaborativo di mappare la storia di Roger Sciama in modo creativo e di collegare i punti della traiettoria della sua vita attraverso diversi ambienti culturali e molteplici identità e appartenenze. Il podcast nasce come esperienza di ricerca-creazione, che è la combinazione di pratiche di ricerca creativa e accademica . La ricerca-creazione rappresenta un ambiente stimolante per formare, nelle parole del sociologo Les Back, la nostra ‘art of listening', cioè ‘an imaginative attention [that] takes notice of what might be at stake in the story itself and how its small details and events connect to larger sets of public issues’ (Back 2007, 7) .
Il podcast è stato trasmesso a settembre 2022 su Tresoldi, piattaforma audio-documentaria della radio nazionale italiana, Rai Radio Tre. Inoltre, il podcast è stato in concorso a @ilPod – Italian Podcast Awards 2023, nella categoria “indie podcast narrativo”.
Credits: Podcast realizzato nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca Europe’s (In)Visible Jewish Migrants, P.I. Piera Rossetto, finanziato da FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Grant n.T1024-G28; CDEC Foundation (Milan) per i materiali d’archivio; con la partecipazione della prof.ssa Elisa Giunchi, Università degli Studi di Milano, prof.ssa Emanuela Scarpellini, Università degli Studi di Milano e Marta Serafini, Corriere della Sera; con il generoso sostegno, l’incoraggiamento e la partecipazione di Sandra, Silvana and Sabrina Sciama
Composer les mémoires et recomposer les identités : être « juif de Libye » à Rome
No full textComposing Memories, re-Shaping Identities: Being “a Jew from Libya” in Rome
Jews from Libya who had been forced to leave the country in 1967, in the aftermath of the Six-Day War settled in Rome, homeland to the Roman Jewish community for two millennia. The “rugged encounter” between the two groups shows an interesting combination in composing memories and re-shaping identities in the public sphere.Composer les mémoires et recomposer les identités : être « juif de Libye » à Rome
Des juifs de Libye, obligés de fuir le pays en 1967 à la suite du déclenchement de la guerre des Six Jours se sont installés à Rome, « patrie » de la millénaire communauté juive romaine. Dans la « rencontre-accrochage » de ces deux groupes, l'entrelacement entre composition des mémoires et recomposition des identités sur le plan public devient particulièrement intéressant.Componer los recuerdos y reconstruir las identidades : ser « Judío de Libia » en Roma
Los Judíos de Libia, obligados a huir del país en 1967 como consecuencia del estallido de la guerra de los Seis Días se instalaron en Roma, « patria » de la milenaria comunidad judeo-romana. La eclosión « encuentro-enfrentamiento » entre estos dos grupos supone una interesante combinación en la composición de recuerdos y reconstrucción de identidades dentro de la esfera pública.Rossetto Piera. Composer les mémoires et recomposer les identités : être « juif de Libye » à Rome. In: Communications, 100, 2017. Des passés déplacés. Mémoires des migrations. pp. 41-55
Il senso inverso del viaggio: Shimon Ballas, memorie di un ebreo arabo
No full textIl saggio presente una critica storico-letteraria del volume autobiografico "In prima persona" di Shimon Ballas, autore israeliano di origine irachena
Dwelling in contradictions : Deep maps and the memories of Jews from Libya
No full textThe article deals with performances of memories and identities by and about Jews from the Middle East and North Africa region, with a focus on Jews of Libyan descent. It acknowledges the complexity that intrinsically characterizes these sources in terms of the heterogeneity of their contents, but also the political implications inherent to their transmission and communication. What is needed, however, is to make this complexity readable, and to make it readable, the author suggests making it visible. To achieve this goal, the author proposes adopting a new research approach which takes inspiration from the field of digital humanities, to assist in thinking spatially and visually about the performances of memories and identities. This can bring about a kind of methodological reconciliation between the researcher, the complexity of the data, the necessity to transform them into accurate research results and the responsibility to effectively communicate them to the larger public.Cet article traite des performances mémorielles et identitaire par et sur les Juifs du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord, en mettant l’accent particulièrement sur les Juifs d’origine libyenne. Il présente la complexité qui caractérise intrinsèquement ces sources en terme d’hétérogénéité de leurs contenus, mais aussi en ce qui concerne les implications politiques inhérentes à leur transmission et à leur communication. Cependant, il est nécessaire de rendre cette complexité lisible et, pour la rendre lisible, l’auteur suggère de la rendre visible. Pour atteindre cet objectif, l’auteur propose d’adopter une nouvelle approche de recherche qui s’inspire du domaine des humanités numériques pour aider à penser spatialement et visuellement les performances des mémoires et des identités. Cela peut entraîner une sorte de rapprochement méthodologique entre le chercheur, la complexité des données, la nécessité de les transformer en résultats de recherche précis et la responsabilité de les communiquer efficacement au grand public
‘We Were all Italian!’: The construction of a ‘sense of Italianness’ among Jews from Libya (1920s–1960s)
No full textThe paper explores how a ‘sense of Italianness’ formed among Jews in Libya during the Italian colonial period and in the decades following its formal end. Based on interviews with Jews born in Libya to different generations and currently living in Israel and Europe, the essay considers the concrete declensions of this socio-cultural phenomenon and the different meanings that the respondents ascribe to it. Meanings span from the macro level of historical events and societal changes, to the micro level of individual social relations and material culture. Viewed across generations and framed in the peculiarities of Italian colonial history, the ‘sense of Italianness’ expressed by Jews in Libya appears as both a colonial and post-colonial legacy
« On pensait revenir à la fin de l’été » : le départ des juifs de Libye en 1967, entre rupture et continuité
No full textThe forced departure of Jews from Libya in 1967 remains a central issue in the personal and collective memories of the Libyan Jewish diaspora. This article adopts the perspective of “places of emotion” as they are recollected in life stories and it explores the multiple layers of meaning attached to these places by the interviewees. This stance enables us to understand in depth the singular individual histories of Libyan Jews, but at the same time it allows us to grasp the larger social and historical dimensions in which these life stories occurred
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