As the Tour de France wraps up this week, a historical debate still rages over who deserves credit for the production of identity cards for Jews hidden in Florence Michele Sarfatti, Tablet Magazine An exhibition at the Italian American Museum…
The Arch of Titus and the Jewish Museum of Rome in New York New York, NY - August 3, 2017 - On September 14th the exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back and the Rome Lab,…
An ‘archaeologist of bureaucracy’ traces the ghostly lives of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II. By Michael Frank In the fall of 2011 I received a letter from my friend Letizia Gualandi, a professor of archaeology at…
On May 17-22, Centro Primo Levi New York will participate in the Turin Book Fair (Pavilion n. 3 - Stand R 67 ) jointly with Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi and Centre Primo Levi, Paris. Through books and the…
Michael Frank. “We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.” This is the Talmud quoting Shmuel ben Nachmani on dreams, but the observation speaks fittingly—and pointedly—to last summer’s commemoration of the establishment of the…
For the First Time the Vatican Museum Collaborates with a Jewish Museum. The Menorah: Worship, History and Legend to Open in Rome in May. Braccio di Carlo Magno (Vatican Museums), Piazza San Pietro, Rome and the Jewish Museum of Rome (Great Synagogue),…
NEW YORK—Besides Israel, Italy is perhaps the smallest region in the world to feature the greatest concentration of different Jewish traditions. In its 2,000 years of history, the Italian Jewish scene has drawn on a number of traditions including the Ashkenazi,…
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017 inspires reflections on the crisis of the European Union and the plight of refuges New York, NY, January 13, 2017 - The 2017 commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, coordinated by Centro Primo Levi with the…