Haaretz: From Rhodes With Love: Memories of Jewish Life on the Greek Island Celebrated in NY Show
In unconventional exhibit, the public is encouraged not only to touch the displays but to converse with Stella Levi, a 96-year-old Jewish native of the island that was occupied by the Nazis in World War II. By Danielle Ziri for…
The New York Times: She Grew Up on a Remote Italian Island. Then Came the Holocaust.
Recalling the once-vibrant Jewish life in prewar Rhodes, an island in the Mediterranean. By Michael Frank for The New York Times. Four years ago, while researching the war years in Italy, I was introduced to Stella Levi, now 96, probably…
Woman Around Town: Eleanor Foà’s Poignant Memoir About Her Italian Jewish Family
By Charlene Giannetti for Woman Around Town “To a child growing up in WASP America, with parents who had funny accents, feeling good about being an Italian Jew was a great gift. But like many gifts of childhood, I took…
Times of Israel: In the heart of NY, pop-up education center revives extinguished Rhodes Jewry
Near Washington Square Park through November 24, a living memorial dedicated to a 2,000-year-old Jewish community is manned by a spitfire nonagenarian survivor. Jordan Hoffman for The Times of Israel NEW YORK — In Lower Manhattan, a few steps from…
La Voce di New York: “Los Corassones Avlan”: a New York i cuori antichi degli ebrei di Rodi parlano ancora
La storia sconosciuta di una piccola comunità millenaria distrutta dal nazismo nell'isola delle rose: la mostra del Centro Primo Levi fino al 24 novembre. Gianna Pontecorboli for La Voce di New York Il risultato è stato possibile grazie al contributo…
ANSA: Nel West Village rivive la storia degli ebrei di Rodi
omaggio a Stella Levi, che usci' viva da Auschwitz Alessandro Baldini for ANSA Cultura In una vecchia "carriage house" nel cuore del West Village torna a vivere la comunità ebraica di Rodi sterminata ad Auschwitz nel 1944. L'installazione dal titolo…
La Stampa: La vita degli ebrei di Rodi in mostra a New York
Los Corassones Ablan (“i cuori parlano”, da un detto sefardita), ha come filo conduttore i racconti di famiglia e le ricerche storiche di Stella Levi. Carole Hallac for La Stampa, October 2019 Un mostra multimediale nel cuore del West Village…
Primo Levi at 100
New York, May 28, 2019 - Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute inaugurate Primo Levi’s Centenary with two programs highlighting Levi’s relevance today and his ability to continue to speak to people of different backgrounds and generations. On…
The Inspiring History of Europe’s Largest Jewish Publishing House
Simone Somekh for Tablet, May 2018 Whether you’re looking for the latest Israeli best-selling novel, the five books of the Torah, or even the translation of the Babylonian Talmud, in Italy, there is one man behind all of these books.…
Italy’s Jews to Israel’s Rabbinate: Hands off Our Artichokes!
Simone Somekh for Tablet, April 2018 When Ba’ghetto, the oldest Jewish restaurant in Rome, announced the opening of its new location in Milan, someone must have made a quick phone call to inform the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that the…
Tablet Magazine: Did Gino Bartali Actually Save Jews? An Investigation.
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…
Tablet Magazine: A Holocaust Story form the White Pages
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…
Boston Review of Books: Finding Ourselves in the Venetian Ghetto
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…
New York Transatlantic: In Old Synagogue, New York Discovers Italian Chazanut
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,…
Giorno della Memoria 2017
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…
New York Transatlantic: 500 Years of Jewish History from the Venice Ghetto
Donatella Calabi presented her new book Venice, the Jews and Europe 1516–2016 at the Rizzoli Bookstore. Read the original article On the March 29, 1516, the Senate of the Republic of Venice decided that the city’s Jews had to live in a secluded…
Washington Post: Celebrating Primo Levi
Noon-1 Primo Levi, the preeminent writer on the Holocaust who died in 1987, is celebrated in a panel discussion featuring Ann Goldstein, translator of Primo Levi’s work and editor of “The Complete Works of Primo Levi,” and her colleague Adam Gopnik, cultural critic…
The Times Literary Supplement. The ethics of Primo Levi
Ian Thomson In the mid-1950s, Primo Levi often travelled to Germany on business as an industrial chemist. It would have been bad for business if he could not, at some level, accommodate the country that had degraded him as a…
La Voce di New York. Nazioni Unite a lezione di Olocausto con Primo Levi
All'ONU letti brani dello scrittore della Shoah: nostra intervista a Dario Disegni, neo presidente del MEIS Gianna Pontecorboli Magnifica serata il 4 maggio al Palazzo di Vetro dell'ONU in collaborazione col Centro Primo Levi di New York. Il messaggio dello…
Italoeuropeo. La Nostalgia e l’Amnesia: le due facce del colonialismo italiano
Valentina Celi. Dal Festival dei Popoli di Firenze agli schermi di Europa e Nord America, due documentari realizzati da registi italiani scuotono le coscienze mettendo in luce gli aspetti nascosti di un fenomeno troppo spesso accantonato dai libri di…
La Voce di New York. Gli ebrei sotto il fascismo e gli spettri della storia
Gianna Pontecorboli Al John D. Calandra Italian American Institute della CUNY, studiosi americani e italiani hanno dibattuto il celebre saggio di Renzo De Felice, uscito la prima volta nel 1961 e ora ripresentato, dopo quella del 2008, in una nuova…
Wall Street Journal. The Tragedy of Survival
Edward Rothstein. The Lager’s inmates struggle with each other, snitch on each other, fight over rations, cheat the innocent. It is a ‘war of all against all.’ Does great suffering bring great wisdom? Does it lead to sophisticated moral views…
