Sullaluna and Centro Primo Levi invite you to join a book club discussion of The Trunk, a novella by Alberto Vigevani (translated by Will Schutt), on May 8th at 6:30 pm. The event is free, and seats are limited. Please RSVP at this link. Copies of The Trunk can be purchased at Sullaluna or ordered from CPL Editions. Sullaluna, is an independent bookshop, Italian bistro, and cultural space in the West Village featuring classic drinks and a menu of mainly vegetarian and vegan dishes. Alberto...

Celebrate language and our ability to speak, make poetry, sing, translate, invent sign systems, and follow languages as they pass through history and acquire a life of their own. Following the screening of a selection of Nurith Aviv's films, she will discuss them with translators, poets, linguists, text scholars, filmmakers, and all of you. Nurith’s films explore language and move lyrically through landscapes, collective myths, and intimate narratives that shape humans’ ways of being together...

Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Gil Anidjar, author of On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal, Columbia University Press, 2024, will discuss the political dimension of the “maternal” in a series of finely woven meditations on slavery, sovereignty, and the social contract. Anidjar identifies a maternal sovereignty and a maternal contract, proposing that without motherhood, there could be no constitution, pre...

Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Join us for Judith Cohen's presentation and performance of little-known musical gems handed down through word of mouth, research, and the legacy of Alan Lomax's work. Introduction by Isabelle Levy (Columbia University). Dr. Judith Cohen is a Canadian ethnomusicologist, medievalist, singer, and storyteller. She teaches at York University in Toronto and is the editor and consultant for Alan L...

Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Jonathan Kaplan (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow, Center For European Studies, University of Verona) presents his research in progress. The concept of “coming to terms with the past” has increasingly emerged as a central component in European postwar historiography. Moreover, starting in the early 1990s, the debates on memory and the historical past, totalitarianism, anti-Fascism, and...

Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. New book roundtable with Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. Reservation is required: rsvp@primolevicenter.org Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. Leiden-Boston, Brill: 2025 In 2019, two scholarly meetings (University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and University of Rome La Sa...

Uri S. Cohen (University of Tel Aviv) discusses his work in progress on Primo Levi at the Bookhouse. Reservation is necessary: rsvp@primolevicenter.org. No remote connection is available for this program. Please arrive 10 minutes before the program begins. Thank you. "Hesitation is the mode of reading and approaching the text, chosen to confront complexity and consider truth not as the opposite of lies but of certainty. Hesitation is recommended by Primo Levi in the very first pages of If ...

Join us for conversation, tea, and sweets to present Ariel Toaff's novel The Renegade (CPL Editions). Translated by Cristina Popple. Reservation is required: rsvp@primolevicenter.org For remote participation request a link to: info@primolevicenter.org In Nablus, 1840, David Ajash—an Italian rabbi and kabbalist of Algerian origin—is found dead by gunshot. Known for his enigmatic past, David left behind only a mysterious manuscript inscribed: “To my son Moisè.” Years earlier, David ha...