Second mandate at the helm of the Jewish Community of Florence for Enrico Fink, musician born in 1969, president since 2020.
The confirmation arrived at the meeting of the new Council emerging from the recent community elections. In the consultation Fink came in first place in the preferences of members. «I am grateful for the appreciation I received», he says. In addition to being new president, Fink – who recently obtained the “special mention” of the Premio Italo Calvino, the most important unpublished fiction competition in Italy, for a story inspired by his own family history – is also the creator and artistic director of the Balagan Café festival , protagonist of the Florentine summer for eleven years. A new edition, the twelfth, entirely focused on the elaboration of October 7, will start on Thursday evening as usual in the garden of the synagogue with a dialogue between Fink himself and the city’s chief rabbi Gadi Piperno. «We must maintain an active role in the city, with our ideas, our values, our attachment to Israel. The objective is to articulate a calm debate, ensuring that barriers are overcome and the reasons and suffering of the conflict are better understood”, underlines Fink.
The new council
He will be joined by vice president Daniele Coen and councilor Barbara Giannozzi Servi. Also on the board are Gianni Neppi, Costanza Castelnuovo Tedesco, Lamberto Piperno Corcos, Ruben Fargion, Paola Barbetti Bohm and Daniele Liberanome.
«A Council in continuity with the approach given in the previous mandate, but also with five new entries», states Fink. Among the most pressing challenges “is the protection of real estate assets, starting from the restoration of the Siena synagogue hit by an earthquake in 2023”. And then, on the internal front, «the commitment to enhance the potential of educational services, at the same time strengthening the relationship with all members and in particular with the elderly and the most marginalized people, who otherwise risk feeling distant from the Community ». In other words, Fink summarizes, “we will try to be increasingly welcoming.”
The current president is the son of Guido Fink, a literary, film and theater critic who passed away in 2019. He was also president of the Florentine Jews, for a short term between 2003 and 2004, returning from Los Angeles where he had directed the Italian Institute of Culture.
