Alessandra Baldini For independent bookstores, New York is a cemetery scattered with crosses: Gotham and Coliseum were gone in the first decade of this century, casualties of the big bookstore chains, which eventually succumbed themselves to the rise of Amazon…
Becky Zeferino S.F. Vanni, the oldest running Italian bookstore in the United States, has released news of its end-of-January reopening in New York City. The bookstore was first founded in 1884 by the Sicilian (Caltagirone) Sante Fortunato Vanni in Greenwich…
@italyheritage. "In a bold move against the trend, in January 2015 "Centro Primo Levi" will reopen S.F. VANNI, the first Italian bookstore in America (active from 1884 to 2004), at its historic location at 30 West 12th Street in…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org NEW YORK, NY – January 18, 2015 - On February 9 at 6:00 pm, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, NYC, free admission, Centro Primo Levi with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org Sixty Years Fighting Oblivion: The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan New York, NY – January 18, 2015 - The Centro Primo Levi NY, Italian Cultural Institute, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Consulate General…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org NEW YORK, NY - On January 29, 2015, at 6 pm Centro Primo Levi with the John Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY will present a lecture and discussion with Marco Clementi, University of Calabria…
SF Vanni. La grande mela, per i libri, da un po' di tempo a questa parte sembra essere piuttosto una mela avvelenata. Coliseum e Gotham, mitiche mete dei lettori newyorchesi, hanno dovuto alzare bandiera bianca già agli inizi del decennio…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2015 Contacts: Betsy Aldredge / (646) 437-4337 / baldredge@mjhnyc.org Museum Welcomes Primo Levi Center for Special Co-Presentation of Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set You Free) And NY Premiere of Once-Lost Italian Jewish Home Movies…
Gioia Sgarlata UN'OPERAZIONE controcorrente nel quartiere della cultura bohémiene delle avanguardie newyorkesi diventato oggi meta di benestanti agé che qui cercano casa. E dove, un po' per le pressioni del mercato immobiliare un po' per la crisi molti luoghi simbolo…
Steve Sipporin Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra. 2011. By Yaala Levi Zimmerman. 90 min. DVD. In He- brew and Italian, subtitles in English. (Jerusa- lem, Israel: Ruth Diskin, Ltd.) Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra is a film that…