Riccardo Reuven Pacifici
Riccardo Reuven Pacifici ( February 18, 1904 in Florence - December 12, 1943 in Auschwitz ) was an Italian rabbi .
Life
His parents were Gilda Borghi and Mario Mordechai Pacifici. The ancestors of his Sephardic family came from Spain and Tuscany . They were active in the Jewish community, lived in Livorno and moved to Florence in the sixteenth century.
After graduating from high school, he began studying at the University of Florence, which he completed in 1926 with a thesis rated summa cum laude . In 1927 he began studying at the Collegio Rabbinico di Firenze with Elia Samuele Artom , Umberto Cassuto and Shemuel Zvi Margulies , from which he graduated with the title of Chacham ha shalem .
From 1928 to 1930 he was deputy head of the Jewish community in Venice, from 1930 director of the Collegio Rabbinico di Rodi , from 1936 Grand Rabbi of Rhodes and from 1936 until his deportation, Grand Rabbi of Genoa.
He led and taught the church even in the difficult years of the war. He visited the Ferramonti internment camp several times in 1942 and 1943 and gave the internees moral and spiritual support. He was betrayed to the German occupation authorities, arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered with his wife Wanda Abenaim and many other members of the Pacifici family.
Since 1966 a square in the center of Genoa has been called Largo Riccardo Pacifici . In May 2008 Gianni Alemanno refused to name a street in Rome after him. In his memory, a stumbling stone was set next to the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa on January 29, 2012 at the place where Pacifici was arrested by the German occupiers on November 3, 1943.
His two sons Emanuele (June 15, 1931 - April 2014) and Raffaele (born 1938) were able to survive the Nazi occupation and the Shoah, hidden by the nuns of Santa Marta a Settignano in Florence . Emanuele Pacifici became a noted historian, his son Riccardo Pacifici was President of the Jewish Community of Rome from 2008 to 2015 .
literature
- Le iscrizioni dell'antico cimitero ebraico a Venezia , Tipografia Enrico Ariani, Firenze, 1935;
- Il nuovo Tempio di Genova con illustrazioni e notizie storiche sulla Comunità nei secoli XVII-XVIII , Tipografia Marsano, Genova, 1939;
- Fatti e personaggi biblici alla luce del pensiero tradizionale ebraico. Antologia di Midrashim scelti e tradotti da Riccardo Pacifici , Grafotecnica, Genova, 1943;
- Discorsi sulla Torà , Roma, 5728-1968, a cura di Emanuele Pacifici;
- Fatti e personaggi biblici nell'interpretazione ebraica tradizionale , Marietti, Genova, 1986, a cura di Emanuele Pacifici
Web links
- Genoa on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] "Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy", Margherita Marchione, Paulist Press, p. 89.
- ↑ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici addresses the internees in the Ferramonti camp. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.daylife.com/photo/04DJ9h22kaecF?q=Pope+Benedict+XVI ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Morto Emanuele Pacifici, memoria storica dell'ebraismo , April 14, 2014
- ^ Emanuele Pacifici, Discorsi sulla Torà
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pacifici, Riccardo Reuven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian chief rabbi of Rodos and Genoa |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1943 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz |