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Antico Quartiere Ebraico, Roma
Sunday 14.06.2026 19:00 - Wednesday 17.06.2026 21:00Ebraica – International Festival of Culture, an event promoted by the Jewish Community of Rome and curated by Ariela Piattelli, Raffaella Spizzichino, and Marco Panella, returns from June 14 to 17, 2026.
The Festival, now in its nineteenth year, has become one of the most important cultural events in the region, addressing the major themes of existence through a dialogue open to all forms of artistic, humanistic, and scientific knowledge.
The title chosen for this edition of the Festival, which annually offers insights into Jewish identity through art and discussion, is Tikvah “Being Hope.”
The title chosen for this edition of the Festival, which annually offers insights into Jewish identity through art and discussion, is Tikvah “Being Hope.”
The Hebrew word Tikvah, commonly translated as “hope,” occupies a central place in the Jewish view of life and history.
In the Jewish vision, hope does not simply indicate a feeling or desire for the future, but an inner tension that pushes man to look beyond the present. The root means both “to hope” and “to stretch a cord,” an ambivalence that gives rise to the evocative image of hope seen as a thread taut between what is and what is yet to come. Even when history seems to distance itself from the promise, that thread does not break.
And it is no coincidence that the national anthem of the State of Israel is Hatikvah.
In the nearly two thousand years in which the Jewish people lived dispersed among the nations, they have continued to transmit both memory and expectation. Hope has been not only a consolation, but a principle of continuity: a force capable of holding a people together through time, exile, and the trials of history.
Starting from a Jewish perspective, this edition of Ebraica presents a four-day program of events in which, using languages ranging from literature to cinema, from theater to history and even neuroscience, the concept of hope finds a multitude of declinations capable of accompanying us in our daily lives.
In the Jewish vision, hope does not simply indicate a feeling or desire for the future, but an inner tension that pushes man to look beyond the present. The root means both “to hope” and “to stretch a cord,” an ambivalence that gives rise to the evocative image of hope seen as a thread taut between what is and what is yet to come. Even when history seems to distance itself from the promise, that thread does not break.
And it is no coincidence that the national anthem of the State of Israel is Hatikvah.
In the nearly two thousand years in which the Jewish people lived dispersed among the nations, they have continued to transmit both memory and expectation. Hope has been not only a consolation, but a principle of continuity: a force capable of holding a people together through time, exile, and the trials of history.
Starting from a Jewish perspective, this edition of Ebraica presents a four-day program of events in which, using languages ranging from literature to cinema, from theater to history and even neuroscience, the concept of hope finds a multitude of declinations capable of accompanying us in our daily lives.
Participation in the Festival is free, subject to availability, and reservations are required on Eventbrite.
