Coming soon (in 2025)! A comic book for young readers by writer Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler and artist David Duvshani, exploring the experiences and perceptions of a girl from Israel visiting Venice.
In September 1913, Franz Kafka stayed at the Hotel Gabrielli Sandwirth in Venice before travelling to Verona. There he practiced his Italian (which he started learning in 1907 when he worked for Assicurazioni Generali) and there he writes a letter to his fiancée Felice Bauer.
To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, the project 'Reading Kafka in Venice' seeks to explore the richness and diversity of his influence on the Italian literary landscape and his unique connection to Venice. The initiative features a residency with writer and scholar Benjamin Balint, author of the award-winning book Kafka’s Last Trial (2018).
Reading Kafka in Venice – Literary Residency
"Aldo's Stones" - a documentary in the making - brings together the history of one of the most fascinating heritage sites in Venice, the Jewish cemetery, and the life of its extraordinary ‘guardian angel’ Aldo Izzo. Through a walking tour with Ruth Ellen Gruber, director of Jewish Heritage Europe, Aldo tells the story of both famous individuals and the community as a whole.
The documentary also highlights the unique, intimate relationship of a man in his nineties who has devoted almost half of his life to a place that is arguably the most underappreciated monument in the whole of Venice.
Beit Venezia is seeking distributors! Contact info@beitvenezia.org
Aldo’s Stones: a documentary on the Jewish Cemetery of Venice
Con "La cucina ebraica del futuro" (Damocle, 2023) proponiamo un piccolo esempio simbolico di come un patrimonio gastronomico che è anche grande strumento di aggregazione e di dialogo tra culture possa tenere insieme passato, presente e futuro.
Nel corso di una residenza tre artisti hanno esplorato la cucina ebraica tra Venezia e Padova: Miriam Camerini, regista teatrale, autrice e studiosa di ebraismo; Marco Bravetti, chef veneziano sperimentale di inimitabile creativita'; Andi Arnovitz, artista visiva americana residente da anni a Gerusalemme che espone regolarmente in Europe, Israele, Canada, Stati Uniti.
Con il supporto della Regione Veneto.
La cucina ebraica del futuro – Riflessioni e ricette (The Future of Jewish Cuisine)
In this innovative matching book and card set, four artists—Tilla Crowne, Sophie Herxheimer, Mirta Kupferminc, and Jacqueline Nicholls—have come together to illustrate the classic Bible story, using the city of Venice and its venerable gambling culture as their inspiration.
In The New Venice Esther, 60 pieces of original art sit alongside the Biblical text in both Hebrew and English, each artist enriching the text in the form of playing cards with a literal “suit” of images that depict this classic tale of kings, queens, and their royal court.
In the Deck of Esther, this same artwork has been transposed onto a stunning set of playing cards so that the story of Esther can be shuffled and reshuffled endlessly.
Deck of Esther: The New Venice Megillah
Venice was the capital of Jewish publishing, with the first complete Talmud, Torah commentaries, mysticism and, in 1609, a famous Haggadah in several languages. We invited eight international Jewish artists to design a New Venice Haggadah after a full immersion in the city and a residency at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. They produced twenty-four beautiful etchings illustrating the Haggadah that were on show at the Jewish Museum of Venice.
The etchings are now offering a unique visual commentary of the New Venice Haggadah, published by Edizioni Damocle and printed in Venice. The Hebrew text is accompanied by a new English translation intended to invite discussion and interpretation.
The New Venice Haggadah
Frank London’s Ghetto Songs - Venice and beyond is inspired by the Jewish ghetto of Venice, from which the word ghetto itself originates. Ghetto Songs guides us on a musical journey that moves through space and times, a fascinating intertwining of sounds, voices and languages.
Con il supporto della Regione Veneto.
Frank London Ghetto Songs
The 31st Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow gave us the opportunity to update the project Living Under Water. A Jewish Exploration of Climate Change.
The collaboration with the festival also allowed us to cerate Living Under Water /Jewish Views on the Environmental Crisis, with contributions by Marc Epstein, Shaul Bassi, Jonathan Sacks, Małgorzata Lebda and Nigel Savage, and featuring the works of Andi Arnovitz, Ken Goldman, Meydad Eliyahu, Leora Wise and others.
