Ian Thomson In the mid-1950s, Primo Levi often travelled to Germany on business as an industrial chemist. It would have been bad for business if he could not, at some level, accommodate the country that had degraded him as a…
All'ONU letti brani dello scrittore della Shoah: nostra intervista a Dario Disegni, neo presidente del MEIS Gianna Pontecorboli Magnifica serata il 4 maggio al Palazzo di Vetro dell'ONU in collaborazione col Centro Primo Levi di New York. Il messaggio dello…
Valentina Celi. Dal Festival dei Popoli di Firenze agli schermi di Europa e Nord America, due documentari realizzati da registi italiani scuotono le coscienze mettendo in luce gli aspetti nascosti di un fenomeno troppo spesso accantonato dai libri di…
New York, NY, April 25, 2016 - On Friday, May 6th, 2016 at 12 noon at 690 Park Avenue, the Consulate General of Italy and Centro Primo Levi NY will present a talk by Dario Disegni, President of the Italian…
Author Primo Levi shared his vision for a more just and human world in fourteen books, memoirs and essays that have been published together in three volumes in English titled The Complete Works of Primo Levi. To celebrate his universal…
An English language portal on the Italian Jewish Press New York, NY, April 17, 2016 - Centro Primo Levi New York with the support of the Cahnman Foundation announces its partnership with the Scuola superiore Normale di Pisa for one…
Friday, February 19, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Image: Rabbi Steven Wise speaking at the World Jewish Congress New York, NY, February 18, 2016 - Film and panel discuss the failure of intervening democratic world’s failure to intervene against the extermination…
Gianna Pontecorboli Al John D. Calandra Italian American Institute della CUNY, studiosi americani e italiani hanno dibattuto il celebre saggio di Renzo De Felice, uscito la prima volta nel 1961 e ora ripresentato, dopo quella del 2008, in una nuova…
Edward Rothstein. The Lager’s inmates struggle with each other, snitch on each other, fight over rations, cheat the innocent. It is a ‘war of all against all.’ Does great suffering bring great wisdom? Does it lead to sophisticated moral views…
His will to bear witness, and record the hellish particularity of the Holocaust, helped save his life in Auschwitz. It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for. William Dereziewicz. Three volumes, 3,000 pages: The Complete Works of Primo Levi, in…