By Julia M. Klein in The Forward From an Italian Holocaust survivor, a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment under fascism Set in the Lanciano internment camp, Maria Eisenstein’s ‘Internee Number 6’ is a testament to the power of writing The Italian…
By Abigail Klein Leichman in The Jerusalem Post
By Leah Grisham in the Jewish Book Council For many people, the word “Holocaust” summons images of ghettos, forced-labor camps, and mass-murder centers of central and eastern Europe. However, a large number of Jews who lived outside the areas that are…
Lavori al via fra febbraio e marzo: museo della memoria con teatro, una galleria d’arte, un caffè letterario, una sala d’incisione musicale e ancora residenze artistiche, laboratori di danza, teatro, musica e arte, e diventerà una tappa per il turismo lento
New books network podcast episode hosted by Ari Barbalat, featuring CPL Editions author Yehudah Cohn
New books network podcast episode hosted by Ari Barbalat, featuring CPL Editions author Emanuela Trevisan
A program spotlighting the resilient legacy of the Mazzetti sisters, for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Sublimò il massacro della famiglia nel cinema e nella narrativa
Corrado Cagli, an artist of the 1920s through the 1970s, is still defying categories like “Italian artist” or “gay artist,” as a show at the Center for Italian Modern Art reveals.
“Mine Is the Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets of Immanuel of Rome” was presented by the Primo Levi Center of NY at NYPL
A consegnarle l’onorificenza l’Ambasciatrice Italiana a Washington Mariangela Zappia
Valentina Pisanty: “The more Memory Culture grew and the more institutionalized it became, the more the deniers gained visibility”
Al Center for Italian Modern Art la pellicola di Barzini e Marcellini
A Park Avenue tradizionale lettura dei nomi dei deportati. L’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite si riempie per l’evento “Home and Belonging”
By Giuseppe Galzerano in Manifesto
Giovanni Palatucci non salvò 800 ebrei e non distrusse 5 mila fascicoli. Il centro Primo Levi di New York fa a pezzi la leggenda del poliziotto fascista a Fiume considerato lo «Schlinder italiano»
By Heller McAlpin in The Wall Street Journal
A chance meeting with a Holocaust survivor blossomed into weekly conversations—and a journey into a vanished world.
By Michael Frank in The New York Times
There is something unique about the way cataclysms are preserved in oral histories. In his 1936 essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin draws a distinction between the printed novel and the oral tale, where experience is “passed from one mouth to the next.” The direct line of transmission is significant: The story you hear from a living witness embeds itself into the mechanisms of memory, as I’ve learned firsthand, like no other. And yet such a transmission poses certain challenging considerations. Is a human being defined by the worst, most tragic thing that happens in her life? Should it carry more importance than the periods that bracket it? What does it mean to be the person who shares this particular heirloom?
I have been haunted by these questions over the past seven years, after a chance encounter changed my life and, along with it, my understanding of the power and responsibility of memory. Late for a lecture one evening in the winter of 2015, I dropped into a chair next to an older, elegant woman who looked me over carefully before inquiring why I was in such a hurry.
By Gianna Pontecorboli in La Voce Di New York
All’incontro parteciperanno anche Roger e Steven Sabbadini, fino ad ora proprietari privati dell’archivio.
Natalia Indrimi è Executive Director del Primo Levi Center di New York. In questa intervista spiega cosa significa esplorare e diffondere la cultura ebraica italiana negli Usa, e perchè non si sente un “cervello in fuga”.
Interview with Valentina Pisanty on her book The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: Centro Primo Levi Editions, 2021), a provocative investigation of the weaknesses of dominant Holocaust memory culture, which often ends up being appropriated by illiberal and xenophobic forces.
