The poetic voice of Immanuel of Rome, a Jewish contemporary of Dante, reappears after 700 years in a staged reading of his sonnets by acclaimed actor Ronald Guttman with literary scholar Fabrizio Lelli. The occasion is the publication of Immanuel's Hebrew Sonnets translated into English by Yehudah Cohn, (CPL Editions, 2023). The program is free and open to the public. Make your reservation. On the occasion of the publication of the volume  Mine is the Golden Tongue. The Hebr...

Roni Cohen (Columbia University, Tel Aviv University) As early as the twelfth century, Jewish parodic literature circulated conspicuously in Europe. Nearly all main texts of the Hebrew tradition was addressed in the form of parody: the Hebrew Bible, the Mishna and the Talmud, liturgical, halakhic, and mystic literature. In general however, Jewish philosophical literature did not become a relevant target of parodic writings. The lack of parodies of philosophical treatises is extremely interes...

Please join the Center for Modern Italian art and Centro Primo Levi for the inauguration of the exhibition of Corrado Cagli curated by Raffaele Bedarida and the presentation of CPL Editions' new volume  Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges: 1938-1947. In the 1930s, the young Italian artist Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola Romana, supported by the Fascist regime despite being Jewish and openly gay. Following the Racial Laws, he fled to the USA, where he remained until 1947. In thi...

Norman I. Silber, Hofstra University,  in conversation with Judge Guido Calabresi, former Dean of the Yale Law School Alessandro Cassin, Centro Primo Levi Stefano Albertini, NYU. RSVP at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò "This book combines family memoirs, an account of Jewish integration in Italy and the United States, an account of successful immigration, of the formation of a famous intellectual, of a piece of history of a renowned American university, and an investigation into American legal c...

Isabelle Levy (Columbia University), Karla Mallette (University of Michigan), Fabrizio Lelli (University of Rome La Sapienza), Davide Liberatoscoli (University of Postdam), Dario Internullo (Università di Roma Tre). This program follows two study days  whose aim is to reconsider Immanuel of Rome and his work in relation to three areas of interest: recent historiography on fourteenth-century Roman culture from the communal experience to the end of Avignon; the role of language and the question...

Study days held in collaboration with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and  the University of Rome La Sapienza. Fabrizio Lelli (University of Rome La Sapienza), Davide Liberatoscoli (University of Postdam), Dario Internullo (Università di Roma Tre), Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Roni Cohen (Tel Aviv University), Karla Mallette (University of Michigan), Mahnaz Yousefzadeh (New York University), Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester), Isabelle Levy (Columbia Un...

A Sunday brunch conversation at Vol de Nuit with Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Lynn Westwater (George Washington University) and Ida Caiazza (Marie Curie Global Fellow, New York University) Co-presented by: Centro Primo Levi New York, Casa Italian Zerilli Marimò at NYU and the University of Rome La Sapienza. Reservation is required: info@primolevicenter.org Prompted by the Protestant Reformation and held between 1545 and 1563, the  Council of Trent was a cultural and ...