Centro Primo Levi Online Monthly
A crowd of 250 people at the Italian Academy at Columbia University paid homage to historian Michele Sarfatti. Renowned for his groundbreaking research on Italian Jewry, Fascist antisemitism and the Shoah in…
When Elsa Morante published La Storia. Romanzo in 1974 it was a watershed event that invested Italian society both in terms of the unprecedented success among readers and the ideologically…
What follows is Alessandro Di Rocco’s acceptance speech of the Centaur Award 2018.I want to thank all of you for being here tonight. I am honored and humbled by this tribute.
In 1948, the New York City Ballet presented The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, a Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’ Medici whose refrain “del doman non v’è certezza” (the future…
The long collaboration between Centro Primo Levi and La Scuola D’Italia continues this year with an exhibit on The Racial Laws and the Persecution of the Jews (curated by CDEC)…
“Lyric prose is a way to enter the market: a parcel of prose is a lost continent” Amelia Rosselli The growing interest in Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), one of Italy’s…
“If this has happened, it can happen again, when all the conditions necessary to trigger the mechanism are in place once again.” Primo Levi From its inception, Printed Matter has…
Since the days of Gutenberg and probably long before, publishers have depended on what was most popular, and therefore profitable, for their existence. From breathless, half-imagined travelogues to more salacious…
A Working Seminar at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The initial impulse for the organization of this workshop came from our need to discuss our…