Centro Primo Levi New York

Our Program Calendar

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09
December

Book launching: Eleanor Foa’s Mixed Messages

Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose Italian-Jewish roots trace back to 16th-century printers, was proud of her exotic roots, yet knew little about her lineage. In 2006, accompanied by her American born sister, she retraces the footsteps of their ancestors through northern Italy (Soragna, Cortemaggi...

Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway

Monday, december 9, 2019 6:00PM
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27
January

Giorno della Memoria: January 27, 2020

Join us for the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. Consulate General of Italy, January 28th, 2019 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. Information: info@primolevicenter.org [vcex_divider style="solid" icon_color="#000000" icon_size="14px" margin_top="20px" margin_bottom="20px"] Giorno della Memoria: Twenty Years of Remembrance in Italy Twenty-four years have passed since the establishment of January 27th in Germany as day of commemorati...

Consulate General of Italy, 690 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065

Monday, january 27, 2020 from 9:00AM to 3:30PM
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30
January

Internee n. 6

Dramatic reading. Details to be announced. Introduction by Carlo Spartaco Capogreco (Università della Calabria). Maria Eisenstein was a Viennese woman who moved to Italy in the early 1930s to study literature in Florence. On June 10th, 1940, Mussolini ordered the arrest of all Jews who did not have or had been stripped of Italian citizenship. While living in Sicily with a lover, she was immediately incarcerated, the only Jew in the city of Catania, probably betrayed by the man she had foll...

Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue

Thursday, january 30, 2020 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM
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10
March

The Italian Executioners: Italy and the Holocaust, 1943-45

Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice Ca' Foscari). Sponsored by the Alan Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NY. Free admission. Reserve your seat at this link. [vcex_divider style="solid" icon_color="#000000" icon_size="14px" margin_top="20px" margin_bottom="20px"] Simon Levis Sullam examines the political and social context as well as case studies in which Italians took active part in the persecution of the Jews. «The evening of Saturd...

UCLA, , 314 Royce Hall, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Tuesday, march 10, 2020 from 4:00PM to 6:00PM

Public and Academic Programs

Public programs

Centro Primo Levi’s programs explore the diversity of the Italian Jewish experience and take inspiration from Primo Levi’s humanism and his quest to explore the past and understand different aspects of the world we inhabit.

Italian Jewish Studies Seminars

A collaborative initiative of Centro Primo Levi with the NYU departments of Italian, History and Judaic Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò to develop a context for the study of Italian Jewish history, generally absent from curricula of Italian studies and only marginally featured in Jewish Studies programs.

Italian Jews, the oldest minority in Europe, have lived in the peninsula since Roman times, producing a unique cultural milieu, and often acting as liaisons to neighboring societies.

Primo Levi Forum

Readings, roundtables and presentation periodically connect scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. Year after year, contributions from all over the world demonstrate

the inspirational capacity of Levi’s work and the creative power of his journeys across disciplines. Translated in over 40 languages, Levi’s work transcends cultural boundaries and comes to plays often unexpected roles in different cultures.

Memoria

Studies and research on the history of the anti-Jewish persecution in Italy, fascism and the post-war construction of memory. A collaborative effort of the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò,

the Italian Academy at Columbia University, CUNY’s John Calandra Italian American Institute and Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi and the Bronx High School of Science. Selected programs are held under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

CPL Editions & Printed Matter

Los Corassones Avlan

September 30, 2019

Printed Matter

Conversations on Jewish Life on the Island of Rhodes. A pop-up installation to discover, discuss and imagine. New York, NY – September 24, 2019 – A fully immersive experience celebrating and exploring the lives of the Jews of Rhodes, ...