![]() This paper argues that Jewish leaders backed the Talmud translation project because it would allow the Jewish community to distance itself from the Shoah-inflected Jewish identity promoted by the museum by participating in an endeavor that signifies the reconstitution of Italian Jewry’s cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage. Meanwhile, Jewish leaders have fully supported a state-sponsored project to complete a translation of the Babylonian Talmud into Italian, using the Progetto di Traduzione del Talmud Babilonese as an opportunity to address publicly historical tragedies such as the burning of the Talmud in the Campo de’ Fiori in 1553 and the Fascist state’s treatment of Italian Jewry in the 1930s-40s. ![]() Within the Jewish community itself, responses to the proposed museum have been mixed. For nearly twenty years the city of Rome has been planning the construction of a National Museum of the Shoah, but practical difficulties and political controversy over the project have delayed its inception. Lilith in Italian Lilith è una figura presente nelle antiche religioni mesopotamiche e nella prima religione ebraica, che potrebbe averla appresa dai babilonesi assieme ad altri culti e miti (come il diluvio universale, presente nellepopea di Gilgamesh) durante la prigionia di Babilonia. THE PROJECT ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING ITALIAN TRANSLATION PROJECTS The goal of the Babylonian Talmud Translation Project is the computerized Italian translation of the Babylonian Talmud, a central text in Jewish culture covering every aspect of human knowledge: law, science, philosophy, religion and even aspects of everyday life.
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