A New Publishing Enterprise
In nearly 20 years of activity, Centro Primo Levi New York has established itself as a platform through which international audiences and the academia can access resources on Italian Jewish studies and current affairs. Our website promotes the presence of…
What the Allies knew: information and the challenges of humanitarian intervention
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…
La Voce di New York. Gli ebrei sotto il fascismo e gli spettri della storia
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…
Wall Street Journal. The Tragedy of Survival
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…
The Atlantic. Why Primo Levi Survives
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…
Americordo. The Italian Jewish exiles in America. A book by Gianna Pontecorboli
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Photograph by Irving Penn: "Ballet Society," New York, 1948. Left to right, Corrado Cagli, Vittorio Rieti, Tanaquil Le Clercq and George Balanchine. Copyright @ Conde Nast New York, NY, December 3, 2015 - Book Sheds New Light…
Harper’s Magazine. Free but Not Redeemed
James Marcus. Primo Levi’s literary conquest of America has been slow, sketchy, almost diffident. The English translation of his first book, If This Is a Man, appeared in this country in 1959, twelve years after the publication of the original in Italy,…
Tablet. The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome
Michael Frank “This book is entirely the work of my hands, for I copied it for my own use. I am Nachman, son of Rabbi Samuel Foa. I copied it in the year 5315, when I was 15 years of…
