CPL, Author at Centro Primo Levi New York

La Voce di New York. Nazioni Unite a lezione di Olocausto con Primo Levi

June 5, 2016
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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…

Italoeuropeo. La Nostalgia e l’Amnesia: le due facce del colonialismo italiano

May 18, 2016
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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…

Presenting the Italian Jewish Heritage Foundation and the National Museum of Italian Judaism

April 28, 2016
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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…

United Nations Celebrates the Contributions of Primo Levi at Holocaust Event

April 25, 2016
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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…

CPL to Partner with the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

April 17, 2016
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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…

What the Allies knew: information and the challenges of humanitarian intervention

February 19, 2016
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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

January 30, 2016
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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

December 23, 2015
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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

December 4, 2015
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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

December 2, 2015
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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…

The Ottoman Catalogue is a curated section of our Bookstore featuring English-language classics and new scholarship on Ottoman history and culture. It explores the impact of nationalism on the Ottoman Empire, the consequences of its decline and dissolution for Europe, and the histories of peoples, lands, religions, and their books before the concept of “the Middle East” emerged as a political and geographical term.

Following two decades of research, programming, and publishing on the history of nationalism, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, Centro Primo Levi moved its attention to the period before 1922, exploring the stories, ideas, exchanges, and transformations that occurred over six centuries of Ottoman rule.

The era that ushered in the rise of the workers movement, totalitarianiasm, the Spanish Civil War, the fall of three empires, the shaping of modern nation-states, and the establishment of an economy based on industrial and scientific growth, banking, and warfare, also brought to an end cultures, concepts of time, language, and rituals that today’s observers often struggle to appreciate.

Much of this history has attracted modest attention from American and English-language scholarship. However, over the past few years, there has been an increase in original and translated research and publications, showcasing this period from various angles and perspectives. As the “Middle East” storms into our societies, challenging the vocabulary of public life, as well as its ethical and epistemological paradigms, we feel that attempting to move our gaze back into this past may help us refine our sensibility and interpretational tools.