Our Program Calendar

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open event30April“A more noble desire undoes my heart”
Catholic and Jewish Women writer in post-Tridentine Italy: Sarra Copio Sullam, Arcangela Tarabotti, Emilia Fiorentina and those whose letters were surrendered to oblivion.
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 ...
Vol de Nuit, 148 West 4th StreetSunday, April 30, 2023 from 11:30AM to 1:00PM -
open event20AprilNight on Earth
International Humanitarianism in the Near East (1918-1930)
Western humanitarians pretended to act upon a kind of tabula rasa, when in fact there was no tabula rasa there, and there was a very long Ottoman humanitarian tradition. Davide Rodogno in conversation with Rajan Menon. Co-presented by The Ralph Bunche Institute and Centro Primo Levi. Constructed after Jim Jarmush’s film and driven by profound empathy, Davide Rodogno's Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkan...
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016Thursday, April 20, 2023 from 6:30PM to 8:00PM -
open event02MarchPower and the Messiah
A Conversation: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Uri S. Cohen. A conversation among authors, scholars, and sages about history, power, and the Messiah. Starting with Walter Benjamin's distinction between "weak" and "strong" messianic forces and history, this program presents three Italy-related stories. We begin with Primo Levi, and his writing of the concentration camp presented in negative messianic terms: Auschwitz as an uncanny messianic state of power, a utopia/dystopia. Couched in his words i...
Vol de Nuit, 148 West 4th StreetThursday, March 2, 2023 from 6:30PM to 8:30PM -
open event01FebruaryWhen the Past Was Present
An early representation of the deportation of the Jews of Rome
Ruth Ben Ghiat (New York University), Alexander Stille (Columbia University), Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union), and Natalia Indrimi (Centro Primo Levi NY) will present the film and propose some hypotheses on its history and production. A group of scholars will discuss a little-known 1948 short film, one of the earliest public recollections of the deportation of the Jews of Rome, the exile, and the birth of the State of Israel. A particular set of circumstances makes the film intriguingly enig...
CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, New York, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, New YorkWednesday, February 1, 2023 from 5:30PM to 7:30PM -
open event31JanuaryThree Memoirs of Fiume
From the library and archive of Centro Primo Levi, we will read excerpts from the memoirs of Jewish women who grew up in Fiume and became victims of Fascist persecution. Each had a different story. Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami), Andra and Tatiana Bucci, Nora Tausz Ronai, Marsha Fink. Moderated by Natalia Indrimi. Cathy Lager was taken by an aunt to the United States along with as many family youngsters as they could pay for. Cathy had trained since childhood to become a piani...
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12 Street, New York, NY 10011Tuesday, January 31, 2023 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM -
open event27JanuaryGiorno della Memoria 2023
Ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the territories under Italian control.
January 27 between 8:30 am and 2:00 pm Consulate General of Italy in New York 690 Park Avenue at 69th Street Each January 27, we read the names of 9,700 Jewish men, women and children deported from Italy and the Italian territories between 1943 and 1945. The ceremony is open to the public and held outdoors, in front of the Consulate General of Italy. Everyone can join and read. Today, the collective awareness of this past is becoming blurred or mythologized, ideologies of violence and ...
Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy. 690 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065Friday, January 27, 2023 from 8:30AM to 2:30PM -
open event24JanuaryCritical Thinking in Action
The Political Writings of Eugenio Colorni
This panel takes its title from the first volume in English of Eugenio Colorni's writings and correspondence. Born in 1909, Colorni was a political philosopher and a teacher who entered the ranks of the anti-fascist movement. His analysis of the convergence of capitalistic interests, nationalism, and state violence, and his federalist ideas led to his incarceration at Ventotene and, in 1944, to his murder by Pietro Koch’s Fascist militia. Besides the renowned Manifesto di Ventotene, his writings...
Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, 25 W 43rd Street; 17th floor, New YorkTuesday, January 24, 2023 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM -
open event21JanuaryPIOMBO: MUSIC FOR PRIMO LEVI
Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring - Transportation and reservations: www.magazzino.art This two-part performace inspired by the work of Primo Levi features the world premiere of Piombo (The Periodic Table), a solo work by Luciano Chessa written for the legendary cellist Frances-Marie Uitti. The program also includes Quest[o], a work conceived by Chessa and Uitti for Cello, Dan Bau and Piano. QUEST[O] - Una meditazione. For cello, piano, dan bau and voices by Luciano Chessa and Frances-M...
Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NYSaturday, January 21, 2023 from 12:00PM to 1:30PM -
open event19JanuaryA Poetry of Memory
Giorgio Bassani in North America
International symposium focusing on Giorgio Bassani's vast poetic production and his teaching periods in the United States (1976-80). On display, autograph letters written by the author in America along with original manuscripts of some poems defined by Bassani himself as "The American poems.” Organized by IIC New York and Fondazione Giorgio Bassani in collaboration with the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara. Reservations: https://iicnewyork.esteri.it
Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park AvenueThursday, January 19, 2023 from 6:00PM to 7:00PM -
open event06DecemberHistorians’ Journeys
Tales of Search and Research in the Understanding of Fascism
4–6 December 2022 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 - With the Support of the Knapp Family Foundation. Schedule refers to Jerusalem time. Online Participation via Zoom: https://bit.ly/historiansj 9:30 am - Session 8 Chair: Matteo D’Avanzo | Scuola normale di Pisa; SICSA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yemane Demissie | New York University Modernity, War & Transformation in Emperor Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia Discussant: Leonardo C...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 9:30AM to 7:00PM -
open event05DecemberHistorians’ Journeys
Tales of Search and Research in the Understanding of Fascism
4–6 December 2022 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 - With the Support of the Knapp Family Foundation. Schedule refers to Jerusalem time. Online Participation via Zoom: https://bit.ly/historiansj 9:30 am - Session 2 Chair: Noah Benninga | SICSA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lorenzo Benadusi | Sapienza Università di Roma ‘In Italy All Are Males’. Fascism and Homosexuality: An Indecent Speech Discussant: Iris Rachamimov | Tel ...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405Monday, December 5, 2022 9:30PM -
open event04DecemberHistorians’ Journeys
Tales of Search and Research in the Understanding of Fascism
Historians’ Journeys: Tales of Search and Research in the Understanding of Fascism 4–6 December 2022 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 - With the Support of the Knapp Family Foundation. Schedule refers to Jerusalem time. Online Participation via Zoom: https://bit.ly/historiansj One Hundred Years after the March of Rome on October 28, 1922 the scope of this international symposium is twofold. On one side, it will focus on the analysis...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405Sunday, December 4, 2022 from 5:00PM to 8:00PM -
open event26OctoberA Children’s Paradise? The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48
Presented by the JDC Archives and the Centro Primo Levi. Registration In a May 1947 memo, JDC worker Theodore Sanejberg described Italian children’s home, Selvino, as a “children’s paradise.” Less than a month later, however, he wrote that his original assessment had been “idealistic” and described the children’s behavior as “very unpleasant.” Located in the foothills of the Alps between Milan and Switzerland, Selvino became the rehabilitation center for hundreds of Jewish children, primar...
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open event20SeptemberOne Hundred Saturdays. Conversations with Stella Levi
BOOK LAUNCH Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and Centro Primo Levi present: One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. By Michael Frank. Illustrated by Maira Kalman, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022. Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award. The remarkable story of Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz tha...
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12 Street, New York, NY 10011Tuesday, September 20, 2022 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM -
open event14SeptemberThe Sabbadini Family Archive
Presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Centro Primo Levi. On the occasion of the donation of the Alessandro Sabbadini Family Archive to the David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation. The archive contains hundreds of records documenting the experience of Alessandro Sabbadini, a young Jewish law graduate from Rome who fled to the United States in 1939 after racial laws were enacted. Mr. Sabbadini was enlisted in the American army and train...
Ambasciata d’Italia,Wednesday, September 14, 2022 from 6:30PM to 7:30PM -
open event07JuneThe Pope at War
Brooke Gladstone (On the Media) in conversation with David Kertzer on his new book The Pope at War Registration Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer discusses his new book, The Pope at War, examining Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust. Kertzer is joined by Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media. David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr., University Professor of Social Science and professor of a...
Marlene Meyerson JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th StreetTuesday, June 7, 2022 from 7:00PM to 8:00PM -
open event27MarchThe Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music
Website launching
The Centro Leo Levi per lo studio del Patrimonio Liturgico Ebraico presents the Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, an online resource for cantors, scholars and the general public . This event is dedicated to the memory of three Italian chazanim: rav Elia Richetti z'l (1950-2021), rav Vittorio Chaim Della Rocca z'l (1933-2021), and rav Fernando Belgrado z'l (1913-1998). The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music is live at www.jewishitalianmusic.org in collaboration with: National Libra...
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open event17FebruaryPollak’s Arm
Book Presentation: Pollak's Arm by Hans von Trotha, New Vessel Press, 2022
Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi) in conversation with Hans von Trotha (author) and David Kertzer (Pulitzer Prize winner for The Pope and Mussolini). REGISTER HERE A fascinating novel illuminates the chasm between civilization and barbarism by spotlighting a little-known figure devoted to knowledge and the power of artistic creation: Ludwig Pollak. Born in Prague in 1868, Pollak was an archeologist, collector, antiquarian who lived in Rome for almost 50 years. A profound connoisse...
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 BroadwayThursday, February 17, 2022 from 6:00PM to 7:00PM -
open event01FebruaryThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis: The Novel, the Film, and the Opera.
This event will be held in person and streamed for those who cannot attend
NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Calandra Institute at CUNY, and Italian Academy at Columbia University present: A conversation: Stefano Albertini (Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, NYU), Anthony Tamburri (Calandra Institute, CUNY), Bianca Finzi Contini Calabresi ( Columbia University). Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi), Michael Korie (Librettist, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis opera). Seats are sold out. Please click here to make a reservation for online attendance “I am Mi...
Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, 25 W 43rd Street; 17th floor, New YorkTuesday, February 1, 2022 from 5:00PM to 7:00PM -
open event31JanuaryExhibiting the Holocaust
Strategy of memory in postwar Italy.
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) presents: Robert S.C. Gordon (Cambridge University, UK) and Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union, New York), will discuss their recent research on the memorialization of the Holocaust in the context of Italian public monuments and memorials. Prof. Gordon will examine the tensions and creativity that underpinned the creation of the Museo Monumento del Deportato in Carpi and the Memoriale italiano di Auschwitz...
--Monday, January 31, 2022 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM
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.
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
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,
CPL Editions & Printed Matter
La iente de Zion
La iente de Zion is a Jewish liturgical poem composed for the observance of the fast of the 9th day of the month of Av (Tisha B’Av). It appears in two prayer books of the Roman rite compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was...
My Betrayed Garden
But what most displeased me, personally, was that my characters were used so freely, with so little reference to my work, in a way that would have been inappropriate even if they were marionettes. Although fine folk, the Finzi-Continis w...
Formiggini’s Talking Cards
A brilliant publisher, Formiggini started running his business in the first decade of the twentieth century in his hometown of Modena. He then moved to Genoa and finally to Rome in 1916. The wit and refinement of his publications, as...
Piero Dello Strologo (1936-2022)
I met Piero Dello Strologo many years ago in Genova. He was younger than I am today and became the initial inspiration for what, years later, would be established as Centro Primo Levi in New York. I arrived at his office in...
Interview with Peter Cole
Going elsewhere might just show you who you are and what you might become. That physically, psychologically, imaginatively, you have to work your way into each of the “languages” involved in any broadly translational situation. And...
Under Gentile Eyes
As the reader will no doubt recognize, Under Gentile Eyes, the title chosen for this inquiry into some of the sundry ways in which Jews and Judaism have been represented in Christian Europe throughout the centuries, is quite blatantly an...
Jewish Citizens
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah opened its third exhibition entitled Beyond the Ghetto. Inside Out curated by Andreina Contessa, Simonetta Della Seta, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, and Sharon Reichel. Image: Ketubah...
The Time of Love
Italian Jews Between Segregation and Emancipation (1849-1871). The Jewish Museum of Rome opens a magnificent exhibition dedicated to the period that goes from the second Roman Republic to the annexation of Rome to unified Italy: Seve...
Il Rinnegato: The Scandalous Life of a 19th Century Kabbalist
On a November morning in 1840, a young boy discovers the body of David Ajash, an Italian kabbalist rabbi of Algerian origin, under an olive tree, in the outskirts of Nablus. Homicide or suicide? The doubt remains, past the end of Il Rin...
Primo Levi: An Identikit
Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, Marco Belpoliti expl...
The Indecipherable Mess of Human Life
Due vite (Two Lives) by Emanuele Trevi is a luminous, beautifully written wisdom book. It was deservedly awarded the 2021 Premio Strega, Italy’s major literary prize, and awaits the foresight of an American publisher for an English tr...
A Chemist’s Book Changed John Barnett’s Life.
Chemist and writer Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table—a memoir in the form of short stories about elements—closes with a chapter called “Carbon,” which tracks a single atom through time and space. Graphic designer and illustrator ...
Angelo Fortunato Formiggini: An Italian Publisher
Eliza Pederzoli’s biography L’arte di farsi conoscere. Formiggini e la diffusione del libro e della cultura italiana nel mondo (Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2019) offers an in-depth survey of the archival resources on the...
Slavery and Conversion in Papal Rome
Scholar of forced baptisms Marina Caffiero talks about the House of Catechumens and the various groups that were forcibly or voluntarily interned there to be converted to Catholicism. Like ghettos a product of the Papal...
Marina Jarre’s Distant Fathers
Rewarding memoirs, like portraits, introduce us to a central character interacting with his or her world at a specific time in history. We are drawn to a memoir when all those elements come alive and acquire relevance for the reader. Mar...
The Persecution, Exclusion and Exile of Jewish Musicians
Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism–Let Our Music Be Played, (Palgrave, Macmillan 2021), edited by Alessandro Carrieri and Annalisa Capristo, is a long-overdue comprehensive overview of how Mussolini's anti-Semitic le...
A Memory of Le Murate
I was released from Le Murate three days ago. In my section, there was an inmate from Prato – the nicest man, who had been “in” for the past fourteen months for some textile deal gone wrong. He knew all the ins of the prison rules and...
Remembering Nedo Fiano z’l
What has characterized my whole life has been my deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. My entire family ended in Auschwitz with me; they were all exterminated. At eighteen, I was orphaned, and this devastating experience made me...
For a Memory of Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
Has a much-vaunted cosmopolitan Holocaust memory — with its linked slogans of “Never forget!” and “Never again!” — simply failed to prevent the rise of the right or, more darkly, might it even be implicated in that political ...
Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
As the Holocaust becomes increasingly present in the political discourse in the US, Europe and Israel, we republish this reflection by Emiliano Perra written in 2010. The article surveys the transformation of the public image of the...
… the contrast between the texture of their speech … and the Hebrew interpolation, snatched from the language of the fathers, sacred and solemn… reflects another, the essential one of Diaspora Jews, scattered among Gentiles … trapped in tension between their divine calling and the daily misery of exile… Primo Levi, Argon
I will set down in order the traditions of my fathers, who were brought on a ship over the Pishon, the first river of Eden, […] They came to Oria; they settled there and prospered through remarkable achievements… The Chronicle of Ahimaaz
Not all of them where materially inert, for that was not granted to them. On the contrary, they were, or had to be, quite active; but inert they undoubtedly were in the innermost selves, inclined to disinterested speculation … the events attributed to them …shared a static quality, an attitude of dignified abstention, of deliberate (or accepted) relegation to the margins of the great river of life. Primo Levi, Argon
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed… Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Intolerance is inclined to censor, and censorship promotes ignorance of the arguments of others and thus intolerance itself: a rigid, vicious circle that is hard to break. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
[…] to understand why the Jews were less a part of Italian life than they thought they were. Arnaldo Momigliano, The Italian Jews
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed… Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Research & Learning
Primo Levi
Primo Levi's life and work through archives and research institutions, a short film and an anthology of essays....
Chazanut
Created in memory of Erna Finci Viterbi z”l, this resource aims at sharing with users across the world the Italian Jewish liturgy and cantorial traditions Coming Soon
The Shoah in Italy
A brief guide to the study of the persecution of the Jews in Italy based on material provided by the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan....
Americordo
Documenting the lives of Italian Jewish exiles in America, their struggles and achievements, through research, oral history and family albums....
Italian Jewish Press
Guided portal to the Italian Jewish press of 19th and 20th centuries. Created in collaboration with the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Coming Soon
From & For the Press
Interview with Valentina Pisanty in HISTORICAL EXPERTISE
Valentina Pisanty: “The more Memory Culture grew and the more institutionalized it became, the more the deniers gained visibility” (more…)
Un film del 1948 finora sconosciuto racconta il ghetto di Roma e il destino dei suoi abitanti
By Gianna Pontecorboli Al Center for Italian Modern Art la pellicola di Barzini e Marcellini (more…)
New York ricorda le vittime dell’Olocausto: cerimonie al Consolato Italiano e all’ONU, La Voce Di New York
By La Voce Di New York A Park Avenue tradizionale lettura dei nomi dei deportati. L'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite si riempie per l'evento "Home and Belonging" (more…)
Palatucci, il mito sfatato
By Giuseppe Galzerano in Manifesto Giovanni Palatucci non salvò 800 ebrei e non distrusse 5 mila fascicoli. Il centro Primo Levi di New York fa a pezzi la leggenda del poliziotto fascista a Fiume considerato lo «Schlinder italiano»...
‘One Hundred Saturdays’ Review: Afternoons With Stella – The Wall Street Journal
By Heller McAlpin in The Wall Street Journal A chance meeting with a Holocaust survivor blossomed into weekly conversations—and a journey into a vanished world. (more…)
What It Took for Stella Levi to Talk About the Holocaust – The New York Times
By Michael Frank in The New York Times There is something unique about the way cataclysms are preserved in oral histories. In his 1936 essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin draws a distinction between the printed novel and th...
I documenti segreti di Mussolini all’Ambasciata Italiana di Washington
By Gianna Pontecorboli in La Voce Di New York All'incontro parteciperanno anche Roger e Steven Sabbadini, fino ad ora proprietari privati dell'archivio. (more…)
Fare cultura a New York nel nome di Primo Levi, Riflessi Menorah
By Massimiliano Boni Natalia Indrimi è Executive Director del Primo Levi Center di New York. In questa intervista spiega cosa significa esplorare e diffondere la cultura ebraica italiana negli Usa, e perchè non si sente un “cervel...
An Interview with Valentina Pisanty in Journal of Perpetrator Research
By Emiliano Perra Interview with Valentina Pisanty on her book The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: Centro Primo Levi Editions, 2021), a provocative investigation of the weaknesses of dominant ...
Editors’ picks from our partners and elsewhere
The Primo Levi Archive in Turin
The International Primo Levi Studies Center offers scholars and students access to Primo Levi's work and to research on different aspects of his writing. The archive collects the editions of his works, translations, critical...
CDEC Digital Library
CDEC Digital Library a web portal dedicated to the history, culture and traditions of the Jews in Italy from the emancipation era the present as well as to the largest collection, library and research body on the history of...
Archivio Ebraico Terracini
The Archive of the Jewish traditions and customs Benvenuto and Alessandro Terracini collects and preserves objects, documents and books from the Jewish tradition of Piemonte. Established almost forty years ago in Turin by a bequest of...
Jewish Museum of Rome
Discover the Jewish Museum of Rome's mappoth collection. Traditionally used to cover the sacred text between readings of different portions, these beautifully embroidered textiles are testimony to centuries of Jewish life in Rome.
Fondazione Fossoli
The Fossoli Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the concentration camp of Fossoli (Carpi, Modena) in its various phases (POW camp, national concentration/transit camp for Jews, DP camp and orphanage). The...
Franco Antonicelli Archive
Writer, public intellectual and publisher Franco Antonicelli was among the early opposers of Fascism, an activist of Giustizia e Libertà and later in the Comitato di Liberazione. He was responsible fo the first publication of Primo Le...