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  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in front of the entrance of the Westmont building, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here at the entrance of his Westmont building apartment, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox024.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox022.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox021.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox019.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in the living room of his Westmont building apartment, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox018.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in here in the hallway of his apartment floor. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox017.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox016.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox015.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in here in the hallway of the last floor of the Westmont building. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox014.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox013.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in here in the hallway of the last floor of the Westmont building. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox012.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox009.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox007.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, enters one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox006.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox005.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox004.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox003.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Exterior of the Westmont building, on the Upper West Side. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox001.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in front of the entrance of the Westmont building, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox025.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here at the entrance of his Westmont building apartment, in the Upper West Side. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox023.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox020.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox011.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox008.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is here in one of the Westmont building multi-purpose rooms (for meetings, parties, movies, etc.) available for the residents. Baruch November is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox002.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Baruch November, 31, is a Orthodox man from Pittsburgh who moved, like many other young jewish men and women, to the Upper West Side in New York with marriage in his mind.  The Westmont building has become one of the favored residences for the young Orthodox. In the last decades the Upper West Side, which has emerged as the "Orthodox Courting Central", has driven young Orthodox jews from the US and other nations.<br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    orthodox010.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women gather in front of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening, at the end of the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox033.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women enter the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening for the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox030.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women gather in front of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening, at the end of the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox032.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women gather in front of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening, at the end of the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox031.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women gather in front of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening, before the beginning of the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox029.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Young orthodox men and women gather in front of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue on a Friday evening, before the beginning of the Shabbat service. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox028.jpg
  • 1 August, 2008. New York, NY. Exterior of the Ohab Zedek Synagogue, in the Upper West Side. The Ohab Zedek is one of the main loci of young Orthodox singles. <br />
 ©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Orthodox027.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The full-scale plaster model of a gas hatch used in Auschwitz, is seen here in the Evidence Room exhibition at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
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The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0094.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A trilingual – in Italian, Hebrew and Arab - street sign for Piazza SS. 40 Martiri (the Holy 40 Martyrs)  was put up as marker in the area in a nod to the city’s rich past in an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A funeral home is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A centenary ficus, whose hanging roots are said to be tears of the tree crying for the executions that took place here during the Inquisition, is seen here in Piazza Marina, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
<br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A view of Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri – today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
 <br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Coppersmith Nicola La Barbera poses for a portrait in front his workshop in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmith workshop is seen here in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmith workshop is seen here in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - pose for a portrait in Mrs Aouate's elegant apartment, which became a point of reference for the Jewish community during the holidays, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The rocky seats of a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi are seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A narrow and steep staircase leeds to a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - that was found below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The tower of Palazzo Marchesi, where a a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - was found below the courtyard, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A chair repair shop is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A trilingual – in Italian, Hebrew and Arab - street sign for Via Meschita (the Arab word for both synagogues and churches)  was put up as marker in the area in a nod to the city’s rich past in an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Local residents shops in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever,  in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Local residents shops in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever,  in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident steps outside from the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident visits for the first time the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate, Maria Antonietta Ancona and Luciana Pepi - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - visit the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A street view of Vicolo Meschita - part of an area once occupied by Palermo’s Great Synagogue - where the new synagogue will be housed in a former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, an unusual name for a church in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Meschita is the Arab word for both synagogues and churches.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A marble slab, shown here in the church of San Nicola da Tolentino, documents the presents of a synagogue in the site where the church was later built, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A historical map of Palermo (the Giudecca, Palermo's ancient quarter, is bottom right quarter) is shown here in the Muncipal Archive of in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Maria Antonietta Ancona, Evelyne Aouate, Eliana Calandra and Luciana Pepi, who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo, pose for a portrait in the Municipal Archive of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Maria Antonietta Ancona, Evelyne Aouate, Eliana Calandra and Luciana Pepi, who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo, pose for a portrait in the Municipal Archive of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Maria Antonietta Ancona, Evelyne Aouate, Eliana Calandra and Luciana Pepi, who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo, pose for a portrait in the Municipal Archive of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Palermo’s municipal archives – whose late 19th century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue - recently exhibited the 1492 edict that banned jews from the island and mementos of more recent affronts, including documents from the years following Mussolini’s 1938 racial laws.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A document  in which the Senate of Palermo promulgates the 1492 edict of the King of Sicily Ferdinand II (called the Catholic) that banned Jews from the island, is shown here in the Municipal Archive of  Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: Visitors walk through the Evidence Room, between the "design workshop : sa" exhibit room (seen here) and Souto Moura Arquitectos exhibit room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
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Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
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The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: Plaster cast of the section of Crematorium 3 of Auschwitz, drawn by David Olère in 1946, is  seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The Evidence Room with plaster forensic details, including full-scale models of (L-R) a gas column, a gas hatch and a gastight door used in Auschwitz, is seen here at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0185.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The Evidence Room with plaster forensic details, including full-scale models of (L-R) a gastight door and a gas hatch used in Auschwitz, is seen here at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
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The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: A visitor is here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
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Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
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The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The plaster cast of David Olère's drawing of the undressing room of Crematorium 3 of Auschwitz, is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
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Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0163.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The plaster cast of David Olère's visual testimony of the removal of corpses from the gas chamber, showing the gastight door with the metal protection over the peephole, is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0149.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: Plaster cast of a Zyklon B can is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0063.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The Evidence Room with plaster forensic details, including the full-scale model of a gas hatch (center) used in Auschwitz, is seen here at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0056.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The Evidence Room with plaster forensic details, including full-scale models of (L-R) a gas column, a gas hatch and a gastight door used in Auschwitz, is seen here at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
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The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0039.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A street food stand is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A funeral home is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A centenary ficus, whose hanging roots are said to be tears of the tree crying for the executions that took place here during the Inquisition, is seen here in Piazza Marina, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmiths is seen here at work in a workshop in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A coppersmith workshop is seen here in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A man walks in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Coppersmith Nicola La Barbera poses for a portrait in front his workshop in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Coppersmiths are seen here at work in a workshop in Via Calderai, whose name (of Arab origin) recalls for the tinkers and coppersmiths whose shops have lined the street practically forever, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - pose for a portrait in Mrs Aouate's elegant apartment, which became a point of reference for the Jewish community during the holidays, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: Evelyn Aouate, an Algerian-born, Parisian-raised transplant whose deepening exploration of her own Jewish roots drove her and others open a synagogue, walks in Piazza Marina, where death sentenced occured during the Inquisition, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The walls of Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri - today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, preserve the anguished scratched scrawls of past inmates, including some written in Hebrew, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A man is seen here walking in the court of the Palazzo Chiaromonte-Steri – today part of the University of Palermo - which between 1601 and 1782 served as the prison and tribunal of the Inquisition, in Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. <br />
In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The entrance to a a mikveh - or Jewish ritual bath - was found here below the courtyard of Palazzo Marchesi in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017. Later in the 16th century, Palazzo Marchesi housed the offices of the Inquisition.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A Bangladeshi barber shop is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A narrow passage is seen here in the  Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: (L-R) Evelyne Aouate, Luciana Pepi and Maria Antonietta Ancona - who spearheaded the efforts to get a new synagogue in Palermo - step outside from the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: A local resident visits for the first time the former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 MARCH 2017: The former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday, that will soon become Palermo's first synagogue in 500 years, is seen here in the Giudecca, the ancient Jewish quarter of Palermo, Italy, on March 22nd 2017.<br />
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In 1492, Sicily’s Jews were banished from the island, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced thousands to leave and others to convert to Roman Catholicism. On Jan. 12, exactly 524 years to the day that the edict gave as a deadline for Sicily’s Jews to depart, Palermo’s archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, granted the emerging community the use of a deconsacrated oratory, to be transformed into Palermo’s first stable synagogue in five centuries.  The synagogue will be located in what once was known as the Giudecca, Palermo’s ancient Jewish quarter
    CIPG_20170322_NYT_JewishPalermo__M3_...jpg
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