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Making Hebrew Books in Venice

An audio-visual journey through the Venetian Hebrew books collections of the Library of Congress and the Renato Maestro Library in Venice.

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Viterbi Family
Lily Safra z'l
Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet
Sarah Wolf Hallac
Peter S. and Mary Kalikow
Claude Ghez
Alan and Caryn Viterbi
Andrew and Joan Milano
Lice Ghilardi
Bruce Slovin and Francesca Slovin z'l
Georgette Bennett and Leonard Polonsky

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi
Italy at the Hebrew University

CONTACT

Centro Primo Levi
15 W 16 Street, New York, NY 10011
917-606-8202
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Aryeh was not a blasphemer, and he wasn’t propos

Aryeh was not a blasphemer, and he wasn’t proposing⁠
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to create a second Adam. He intended to construct not a man,⁠
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but, rather, a po’el—let’s call him a worker—⁠
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a servant, faithful and strong, if not too discerning...⁠
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Primo Levi, The Servant

Thank you to everybody who joined us at our first

Thank you to everybody who joined us at our first event, the launch of our new space, The Bookhouse!! The Bookhouse is an intimate space for collaborative work on books, book culture, and history, comprised of a Reading room, a Study room, a History of the Hebrew Book “Showbox,” and a Bookstore. Dwellers of the “house” are the American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, and Dan Wyman Books.⁠
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From now on, every Thursday, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm visitors are welcome to visit and browse books on Jewish history and culture, including rare, classics and new titles. Talks, roundtables, and readings will be held on-site. The Bookhouse is also open by appointment.

CPL EDITIONS' NEW TITLE 📚️Ariel Toaff's The R

CPL EDITIONS' NEW TITLE 📚️Ariel Toaff's The Renegade⁠
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Here lies David Ajash who learned the secret of how to transform appearance into reality and reality into appearance. May his memory always remain tied to the bond of life.⁠
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Historian Ariel Toaff’s debut novel, first published in Italian by Neri Pozza in 2021, is now available in English. A refreshing, complex take on the historical novel, the narrative tracks the life and death of David Ajash, a rabbi and kabbalist formed between Algeria, Livorno, Ferrara and Nablus. ⁠
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In 1840, a young boy makes a chilling discovery - Ajash's lifeless body under an olive tree. The mysterious circumstances of the rabbi's death raise haunting questions - was it suicide or homicide? Prepare to be enthralled as this gripping literary debut unravels the story in reverse, starting from this gripping scene.⁠
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Purchase our new title at the link in bio!

Thank you to everybody who joined us on the 14th f

Thank you to everybody who joined us on the 14th for our Conversations On Exile, with historian and Rabbi Shaul Magid talking about his book The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance... 💬🌍️

Thank you to everybody who joined us at our first

Thank you to everybody who joined us at our first event, the launch of our new space, The Bookhouse!! The Bookhouse is an intimate space for collaborative work on books, book culture, and history, comprised of a Reading room, a Study room, a History of the Hebrew Book “Showbox,” and a Bookstore. Dwellers of the “house” are the American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, and Dan Wyman Books.⁠
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From now on, every Thursday, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm visitors are welcome to visit and browse books on Jewish history and culture, including rare, classics and new titles. Talks, roundtables, and readings will be held on-site. The Bookhouse is also open by appointment.

“By now it is late and I should close my eyes, b

“By now it is late and I should close my eyes, but my father’s fall from grace is too enticing a spectacle.” ⁠
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An intimately interwoven dual narrative—a father’s confession and his son’s discovery. 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.” Now a rabbi himself, and resentful towards his father who abandoned him years before, Moisè reluctantly begins to read his father's final testament. Through David’s eyes, we traverse the vibrant Jewish community of Livorno and the Mediterranean world of the early 19th century: From Jerusalem to Pisa, from kabbalistic mysteries to Masonic intrigues, from crisis of faith to brothels and forbidden love, from Hebrew printing to gambling, sea trade, food and scents—the story pulses with life and reveals painfully unresolved conflicts between father and son. ⁠
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Order The Renegade by Ariel Toaff on our website, at the link in bio!

IN A CORNER OF CARNARO 📙⁠ Book launch: a memo

IN A CORNER OF CARNARO 📙⁠
Book launch: a memoir by Caty Lager Bottone (1920-2015), CPL Editions⁠
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November 12 at 6:30 pm at the Sixth Floor Bookshouse, Center for Jewish History. Reservations required. rsvp@primolevicenter.org⁠
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Conversation with Caty Lager’s daughters Dr. Marsha Fink and Sandra Bottone.⁠
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Katrine or Caterina Lager was born in Fiume in 1920. Her parents’ families had landed in the city before the annexation to Italy, when it was a cosmopolitan and flourishing port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her mother valued education and encouraged her to pursue her passions: piano and dance. At a young age, she was sent with an older cousin to study in Vienna. Back in Fiume, after the promulgation of Mussolini’s Racial Laws the entire Jewish population remained stateless overnight. The very large Goldstein-Lager family found itself in dire straits. They understood that there were no means for everybody to flee. With the help of "Aunt Bertha" who had moved to New York years earlier, they decided to send all the youngsters to America. Six and soon after eight teen-agers ended up living in their aunt’s apartment in the Bronx, seemingly unprepared for taking on factory jobs and the struggles of working class New Yorkers. When, in 1962, she started to work for the Rome office of HIAS helping refugees from Libya, Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran, and Russia, her life experience became a powerful resource to organize, foresee, assist, offer a shoulder and understand the state of mind of people who are in no position to make plans for the future and struggle to inscribe their past and their own lives in the narratives the relief organization system tries to impose on them.

We're waiting for you! 🕯️Welcome to the Sixth

We're waiting for you! 🕯️Welcome to the Sixth Floor Bookhouse 📙⁠
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5:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Sixth Floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street.⁠
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The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History.⁠
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The Bookhouse is an intimate space for collaborative work on books, book culture, and history, comprised of a Reading room, a Study room, a History of the Hebrew Book “Showbox,” and a Bookstore. Dwellers of the “house” are the American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, and Dan Wyman Books.⁠
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COME VISIT THE BOOKHOUSE!⁠
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When – The Bookhouse will be inaugurated on Monday, November 11, with an open house from 5:00 pm and 8:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Dan Wyman will showcase selected items from his inventory. At 6:30 pm he will give a brief talk, “Post-Election Pledges to the Jews of Newport: George Washington’s 1790 Decree to Give ‘to Bigotry No Sanction.’” With an original period publication of Washington’s 1790 famous promise on hand. ⁠
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Reservation is required at the link in bio.

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