ʻIke ʻia ka ʻike hoʻoilina Iudaio ma Malta ma New York City

ʻO Malta, kahi pae moku i loko o ka Mediterranean Mediterranean, ʻo ia kekahi o nā mea huna maikaʻi loa no kahi ʻike hoʻoilina Iudaio. I ka ʻimi ʻana i kahi noho Iudaio mai ka wā Roma, ʻoi aku ma mua o 200 mau malihini i hele i ka American Sephardi Federation a me New York Jewish Travel Guide's special Jewish Heritage Malta papahana i hana ʻia me ka Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), Exclusively Malta, a me ka Hale Aliʻi ʻo Corinthia. Hōkele, i mālama ʻia ma ka Center for Jewish History ma New York City.

Ua wehe ʻia ke ahiahi ʻo Jewish Heritage Malta e Jason Guberman, Luna Hoʻokele, ʻAmelika Sephardi Federation, nāna i hoʻomaikaʻi i ka ʻokoʻa moʻomeheu o Malta, me nā pilina Iudaio kahiko i ʻike ʻia ma nā wahi hoʻoilina, a ʻike i ka ʻike ʻana o kekahi poʻe Maltese i nā kūpuna Iudaio.

Ua komo ka papahana i nā ʻōlelo hoʻokipa mai HE Carmelo Inguanez, ka Lunamakaʻāinana mau o Malta i ka UN, a me Joel Levy, ka Pelekikena i hala a me Luna Nui o ka Center for Jewish History, nāna i haʻi i kāna ʻike Malta mai kona wā i noho ai ma ke ʻano he Luna ʻOihana haole ma mua. ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma Malta, i ia manawa ua kōkua ʻo ia i ke kaiāulu e hoʻoneʻe i ka hale pule i kahi hale kaulana.

ʻO ka mea haʻiʻōlelo i hōʻike ʻia, ʻo Dr. John Baldacchino, Luna Hoʻokele, University of Wisconsin-Madison's Arts Institute a me Professor of Arts Education, kahi loea o ka Mediterranean aesthetics, i kūkākūkā i ka mōʻaukala o nā Iudaio ma Malta. ʻO nā aʻa Iudaio ma Malta mai ka 4th a me ka 5th Century i ka wā Roma e like me ka hōʻike ʻana e kekahi mau Catacombs Iudaio me nā kiʻi e hōʻike ana i ka Menorah (candelabra) Iudaio i hiki ke loaʻa ma ka kahua o St. Paul's Catacomb kokoke i Rabat. ʻO ka mōʻaukala lōʻihi o ka Iudaio e pili ana i nā manawa o ka hoʻonui ʻana a me ka hoʻokauwā ʻana, e hilinaʻi ana i ka mea nāna i noho aliʻi ma Malta i kēlā manawa.

Ua haʻi aku ʻo Michelle Buttigieg, Lunamakaʻāinana MTA ʻAmelika ʻAmelika, ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka papahana Jewish Heritage Malta ma Mei, 2016, no ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana i ke koʻikoʻi o ka mākeke huakaʻi huakaʻi Jewish Heritage ma ʻAmelika ʻAmelika. "MTA kono, me ke kākoʻo o Exclusively Malta a me Corinthia Palace Hotel, he American Jewish journalist, Harry Wall, a me ka honua kaulana kiʻi Richard Nowitz, e kipa Malta a hana i ka wikiō a me ka moʻolelo e pili ana i ka Maltese Jewish Experience", wahi a Ms. Buttigieg, a laila kaʻana like i ka wikiō me ka lehulehu.

ʻO Jason Allan, Luna Hoʻokele, Exclusively Malta, a laila hōʻike i ka Jewish Heritage Experience ma Malta papahana i hoʻolālā ʻia e kāna hui. Ua kamaʻilio ʻo ia e pili ana i ka Community Jewish Community i Malta i kēia lā, ʻoiai he liʻiliʻi ka helu (ma lalo o 200), ʻoi aku ka ikaika. No Gibraltar, ʻEnelani, ʻApelika ʻĀkau, Pokukala, a me Tureke ka hapa nui o ka poʻe Maltese Jewish Community i kēia manawa i ka wā o ka noho aliʻi ʻana o Farani a me Pelekania mai 1798. I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ke kenekulia 20, ʻoiai ʻaʻohe rabi o nā mokupuni, e hana nā rabi. lele pinepine ia mai Sicily e hana i na hana haipule. I ka wā o ke Kaua Honua II, ʻo Malta wale nō ka ʻāina ʻEulopa i koi ʻole i nā visa no ka poʻe Iudaio e holo ana i ka Nazism a he nui nā Iudaio Maltese i hakakā iā Kelemania i ka pūʻali koa Pelekania i ke kaua.

Hiki iā Malta ke hoʻonohonoho i nā malihini e hālāwai me ke kaiāulu Iudaio kūloko a e hele i nā pule Sābati a me nā pule hoʻomaha ma ka hale pule. Ua ʻike ʻo Allan i ʻelua makahiki i hala aku nei ua hoʻokumu ʻo Chabad i ka hale ʻaina Kosher mua ma Malta, aia ma ke kikowaena o St. Julian's.

ʻO nā wahi o ka hoʻoilina hoʻoilina Iudaio kūikawā ma Malta he mau ʻāina kahiko a me nā hōʻailona alanui. Ma ke kulanakauhale i paa i ka pa o Mdina, kahi o na Iudaio i aneane ai i ka hapakolu o ka heluna kanaka, aia he "Makeke Silika Iudaio"; a ma Valletta, Malta's Capital and European Capital of Culture 2018, hiki i kekahi ke ʻike i ka "Jews Sally Port" kahiko.

ʻO ka Mokupuni ʻo Comino, ʻaneʻane noho ʻole i kēia lā akā kaulana no ka Blue Lagoon, he aʻa Iudaio. ʻO Comino kahi i noho ai ʻo Sephardi-Jewish mystic a hoʻolaha ponoʻī iā ia iho, ʻo Avraham Abulafia, mai 1285 a hiki i kona make ʻana i nā makahiki 1290. I loko o kēia manawa, ua hōʻuluʻulu ʻo ia i kāna Sefer ha Ot ("Book of the Sign") a me kāna hana hope loa, a ʻo kāna hana hoʻomaopopo loa paha, ʻo ka puke noʻonoʻo ʻana ʻo Imrei Shefer ("Words of Beauty").

ʻEkolu mau hale kupapaʻu Iudaio ma Malta, ʻoiai ua paʻa ʻia, hiki ke kipa ʻia ma o nā hoʻonohonoho mua me Exclusively Malta. ʻO nā moʻolelo i hōʻiliʻili ʻia mai nā palapala kupapaʻu, he moʻolelo waiwai e pili ana i nā koa Iudaio i kaua ma WWI a kanu ʻia ma Malta.

Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Ms. Buttigieg, e pili ana i ka pane hoihoi i ka hanana New York, "ʻO ka Malta Tourism Authority, me kāna mau hoa no ka Jewish Heritage Malta Program, Exclusively Malta a me Corinthia Palace Hotel, ke nānā nei i ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka nui o nā mākaʻikaʻi Iudaio. ma ka hoʻokipa ʻana i nā hanana like e hoʻolauna i ka ʻike ʻo Jewish Heritage Malta, ʻaʻole wale ma US a me Kanada, akā i ka ʻIseraʻela a me nā ʻāina ʻē aʻe.