E 'is an indissoluble link that binds the Risorgimento, completatosi finally Unity of Italy in 1870 and the Italian Jewish community: very large, widespread and enthusiastic was in fact the commitment of Jews to this movement in its various forms, from training to Garibaldi's close collaboration with groups inspired by Mazzini's not forget the contribution of the work itself Cavour and "Cavour" (valuable and trusted secretary of the Count was a jew, Isaac Artom).
If the "Albertine Statute" of March 1848 had established the legal emancipation of the Jews of Piedmont, will be meeting in 1870 that these rights will be extended to all "Israelites" Italians, in the year of completion of 'Unit with Italian capital Rome (1871), when the breach of Porta Pia meant the end for the Jews of the ghetto imposed by the papacy to the Roman community .
A double bond unites us, therefore, as the Italian and Jews, the celebrations which these days make more evident the 150th birthday of a united Italy, a bond that Giuseppe Verdi has made eternal and exciting in "Va pensiero" from Nabucco from the first at the Teatro alla Scala, March 9, 1842 .
Greetings Italy.
Gadi Polish
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In pictures: Jewish cemetery in Livorno, Finzi Fortunato's grave, "Garibaldi's 1859-60 and 66 throughout his long life was throbbing with love to the homeland"
"The daughter poses." Missing In 1923, Fortunato was in some way that, by not living the "betrayal" of the racial laws (racist) issued by the fascist dictatorship with the complicity of the monarchy is the direct heir of the Risorgimento.
