Little Scenes of Rhodes
Conversations between Stella Levi and Isabelle Levy The Department Store of Salomon Alhadeff The Department Store of Salomon Alhadeff was founded in the mid-1800s. It was the biggest department store…
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Primo Levi at 100: A Multilanguage Reading
The Italian Cultural Institute, Centro Primo Levi and the New York Public Library presented a day-long multi language reading of Primo Levi’s memoir If This Is a Man. The question…
Periodic Words: Stranger
Periodic Words: Stranger In the Preface to If This Is A Man, Levi warns the reader about some possible consequences of organized political systems: “Many people—many nations—, can find themselves…
Letter to a Friend in Gaza
Letter to a Friend in Gaza: From Film to Theater Amos Gitai’s stage version of Letter to a Friend In Gaza, which had its World Premiere at Spoleto Festival…
Primo Levi at 100
Primo Levi’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated around the world through lectures, book presentations, staged readings, and academic seminars. Drawing on its ongoing effort to offer a platform to new…
Corrado Cagli’s Drawings in the Collection of the New York Public Library
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…
Stella Levi at the Scuola d’Italia
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)…
Hebrew University Symposium Explores Fascism, Racism and Nationalism.
Scholars from different countries gathered in Jerusalem for a symposium that revisited the Italian Racist legislation of 1938 in a interdisciplinary and contemporary perspective. The themes investigated in the colloquium…
Historian Michele Sarfatti Honored at Columbia University
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…
Filo-So-Fare
The resurgence of the Italian silk tallit. Alessandro Cassin in conversation with Rav Umberto Piperno Many of us remember well the years Rav Umberto Piperno spent in New York: his…