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Books March 12, 2024

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

Thanks Goodness I Am Here

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41.  Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021  In July 1939, Mario and Clara…

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Videos April 1, 2013

Primo Levi at 90

Each year, the Primo Levi Forum connects scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. What continues to emerge is the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Katja

It is a first hand testimony, in all its unique flavor and idiosyncratic detail, tracing the ark of a life that started in war torn Italy, continuing with an American…

Videos April 1, 2013

The Rosselli Case

Among the most courageous figures of Italian antifascism, Carlo and Nello Rosselli co-founded Giustizia e Libertà. Carlo was among the first to grasp the importance of the Spanish Civil War…

Videos April 1, 2013

J-Italy

J-ITALY, conceived by Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with ENIT (The Italian National Tourism Board) and designed by Jonathan Wajskol, is a newly created portal that provides a dynamic guide to…

Videos April 1, 2013

Il Coro del Tempio Maggiore

On March 17th, 1861 Vittorio Emanuele II was declared King of Italy, uniting seven states under the Savoy crown. It was not until September 20th, 1870, when the Piemontese troops…

Books March 31, 2013

A Civil War

        Claudio Pavone, Peter Levy (Translator), A Civil War, Verso, 2013 ‘Pavone’s study of the struggle between the Resistance and the Fascist Republican regime, A Civil War, has…