Centro Primo Levi Online Monthly
History, Memory, and the Question of “Who Owns the Holocaust?”: Thoughts on Manuela Consonni’s L’eclisse dell’antifascismo The following are some not-quite-random thoughts inspired by Manuela Consonni’s new book, L’eclisse dell’antifasicsmo: Resistenza,…
Francesco Cassata delivers the 2015 Primo Levi Lecture Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila,…
Universität Innsbruck (Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) with the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Department of Romance and Latin American Studies) November 17-19, 2015 – Claudiasaal – Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3/2, Innsbruck, Contacts: aiani@uibk.ac.at, italienzentrum@uibk.ac.at This conference…
The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto A look back on the 500-year history and intellectual life of one of the world’s oldest Jewish quarters Link Five hundred years ago,…
The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome. Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust. Link “This book is entirely the work of my hands, for I…
Biblical Translations in Antiquity Seminar 1: Ancient translations curated by Dorota Hartman November 19, 2015 Riccardo Maisano, Introduction Raffaele Esposito, In the Beginning: The Hebrew Bible’s Text Anna Passoni Dell’Acqua,…
After a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Milan, New York Times op-ed contributor Roger Cohen ponders on the plight of the Syrian refugees and reminds us of how the…
The CPL EDITIONS App is finally online and can be downloaded at no cost from iTunes and Googlepaly. It is a new and convenient way to update readers on…
CfA: USHMM 2016 Summer Research Workshop program [discussion] Summer Research Workshops for Scholars July-August 2016 Applications due Oct. 9 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center…
Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers during Fascism International Conference, Trieste, 26 Oct 2015 Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers during Fascism. Trieste – 26th October 2015 Venue: Sala del Ridotto del Teatro…