Zvi Ben-Dor Benite will speak about the story of David Reubeni. R A reservation is required: rs**@*************er.org Arriving in Rome in 1523, a Yemeni Jew proclaimed himself the “Prince of the Lost Tribes” and leader of...
Anna Ferrando will discuss her pioneering research on the origins of the Italian publishing house Adelphi is an innovative and promising approach to cultural and historical inquiry. Her Adelphi: Le origini di una casa editrice...
Filming Words. Four Days with Nurith Aviv.
April 16, 2025Anthology Film Archive and Bookhouse, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Celebrate language and our ability to speak, make poetry, sing, translate, invent sign systems, and follow languages as they pass through history and acquire a life of their own. Following the screening of a selection of Nurith...
Sullaluna and Centro Primo Levi invite you to join a book club discussion of The Trunk, a novella by Alberto Vigevani (translated by Will Schutt), on May 8th at 6:30 pm. The event is free, and seats are limited. Please RSVP at this...
Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Jonathan Kaplan (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow, Center For European Studies, University of Verona) presents his research in...
Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Gil Anidjar, author of On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal, Columbia University Press, 2024, will discuss the...
Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. Join us for Judith Cohen’s presentation and performance of little-known musical gems handed down through word of mouth,...
Bookhouse: American Sephardi Federation, Centro Primo Levi, Dan Wyman Books, a cooperative initiative. New book roundtable with Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. Reservation is required:...
Uri S. Cohen (University of Tel Aviv) discusses his work in progress on Primo Levi at the Bookhouse. Reservation is necessary: rs**@*************er.org. No remote connection is available for this program. Please arrive 10 minutes...
Talking Books with Ari Barbalat
January 27, 2025Bookhouse, Sixth Floor at the Center for Jewish History, Programs
Join us for a conversation and refreshments with New Books Network’s host Ari Barbalat. Reservation is required: rs**@*************er.org Ari Barbalat, a perceptive and knowledgeable podcaster/host for New Books Network, will be...
The Renegade: Books and Tea
January 27, 2025Bookhouse, Sixth Floor at the Center for Jewish History, Programs
Join us for conversation, tea, and sweets to present Ariel Toaff’s novel The Renegade (CPL Editions). Translated by Cristina Popple. Reservation is required: rs**@*************er.org For remote participation request a link to:...
Guido Alberto Fano: A Journey in Words and Music
December 24, 2024Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Composer, pianist, and conductor Guido Fano was offered three opportunities to move to the United States: in 1905 with Ferruccio Busoni; in 1911, to the College of Music in Cincinnati; and after 1938 to escape racial discrimination....
Casa Rossa: A Place of Memory and Transformation
December 24, 2024Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
Fabio Macaluso (President, Fondazione Casa Rossa) and Sara De Carlo (curatorial adviser). Casa Rossa (Alberobello, Puglia) was built in the wake of Italy’s unification as an agricultural school. Between 1940 and 1977, it was used for...
The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Dictatorships, Democracies, and the Oil Wars
December 24, 2024Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Mauro Canali’s classic The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini (Palgrave 2024) has recently been published in English. Prof. Canali will discuss the book with Ruth Ben Ghiat and Natalia Indrimi. Canali’s research is based on the trial...
Pieranna Cavalchini (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) will explore the work of Italian artist Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) and his groundbreaking 1971 performance pieces What is Fascism? and Ebrea. These were among the first Italian...
Marco Vigevani in conversation with Jonathan Galassi and Alessandro Cassin on Alberto Vigevani’s lyrical musing The Trunk (translated by Will Schutt, CPL EDITIONS 2024). Reading by Yuval Jonas. Reservations for this event:...
Join us for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the territories under Italian rule. January 27 between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm at the Consulate General of...
Tariq Alì on Chemin Abramsky: My Life, My Library, and the Left
December 4, 2024Bookhouse at CJH, Programs
Bookhouse is a small place about books on the sixth floor of a Chelsea library building. Take the elevator and discover cozy rooms softly illuminated and infused with music, filled with books and carpets, a samovar from Izmir,...
Robert Gordon will discuss with Karen Pinkus a little-known journey that a young Pier Paolo Pasolini made in the Summer of 1942 to Weimar, in the heart of Nazi Germany, where a major cultural festival of European Nazi and Fascist...
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History. The Bookhouse is an intimate space for collaborative work on books, book culture, and...
Historian and Rabbi Shaul Magid talks about his book The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Ayin Press, 2023). Seating is limited and reservation is necessary: rs**@*************er.org. Thank you. “Magid’s project—over...
Book Launch: In A Corner of Carnaro: We Were Too Few to Make History. A memoir by Caty Lager Bottone (1920-2015). Conversation with Caty Lager’s daughters Dr. Marsha Fink and Sandra Bottone. Reservations are required:...
The English Voice of Giorgio Bassani’s Poetry: The Complete Poems (Agincourt, 2023) Translated by Roberta Antognini and Peter Robinson Conversation with the translators; Welcome by Stefano Albertini; Luigi Ballerini: A Word from the...
Book launch with the author Anthony Gad Bigio. RSVP to am*****@***sm.org Join us for a presentation on the fascinating life of Gad Franco (1881-1954), a prominent Sephardic journalist, lawyer, and jurist, who worked relentlessly for...
The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini
August 28, 2024Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
On the occasion of the publication of Mauro Canali, The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini, The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime (2024, Palgrave Macmillan) The author in conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra...
Documentarian David Modigliani discusses his Tribeca-winning podcast series Pack One Bag with Guardian columnist Richard Wolffe. How do we understand the past? How do we read letters our grandparents wrote? How do we understand truth...
The Renegade: A True Novel
August 23, 2024Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Book launch. The Renegade by Arial Toaff, CPL Editions, 2024 translated by Cristina Popple Historian Ariel Toaff’s debut novel, first published in Italian by Neri Pozza in 2021, is now available in English. A refreshing, complex take...
Book launch: Ed Simon, Devil’s Contract. The History of the Faustian Bargain , (Melville House Publishing, 2024). With Ed Simon in conversation with Mark Lilla. Register here “Marlowe staged Dr. Faustus at the very beginning of what...
Tribute to Sami Michael
May 14, 2024Center for Jewish History, American Sephardic Federation, Programs
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU) This event is organized by the American Sephardi Federation as part of the New York Sephardic Film Festival. For information about admission visit the festival’s website. In collaboration with Casa...
Conversation with John Turturro and Na’ama Keha will follow. This film is presented by the American Sephardi Federation as part of the New York Sephardic Film Festival. Admission: $ 20. Buy Tickets. In collaboration with Casa...
Conversation with David Forgacs (NYU), Q & A moderated by Na’ama Keha This program is presented by the American Sephardi Federation as part of the New York Sephardic Film Festival (4K restoration). Admission: $ 20 – Buy...
Presented by the American Sephardi Federation. In collaboration with Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. Admission: https://nysephardifilmfestival.org/the-program/ We studied the Greeks and my sister read Pindar’s poem to me … … with lyre...
How Did Persian Liturgy Become Sephardic? Imagining Jewish Persian Music.
May 14, 2024Keila Kedosha Janina, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Persian Jews are both the oldest living Jewish diaspora, and the largest Middle Eastern Jewish community outside of Israel. Over the course of centuries however, like most communities in Africa and Asia, their original customs were...
Centro Primo Levi’s book talks at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, 132 Delancey Street, 2nd fl. (entrance on Norfolk Street. There is no elevator. Sorry about this). At 7:00 pm EST RSVP: in**@*************er.org In Regarding The Pain...
The Racial Laws at the University of Rome La Sapienza
December 22, 2023Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy, Memoria, Programs
The Consulate General of Italy and the University of Rome La Sapienza present the recently opened archive and digital portal of La Sapienza (https://1938-sapienza-leggirazziali.it/Sito/) documenting the expulsion of faculty members,...
Corrado Cagli’s Triumph of Bacco and Ariadne
December 21, 2023Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, Memoria, Programs
Presented by the Center for Italian Modern Art and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. Make your reservation now! Bruno Walter Auditorium. The Library for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue. The score of The Triumph of...
Art After War: Paola and Lorenza Mazzetti
December 21, 2023Magazzino Italian Art, Magazzino Italian Art, Memoria, Programs
Reservations: https://www.magazzino.art Magazzino Italian Art, in collaboration with the Centro Primo Levi New York, presents a program focused on the resilient Mazzetti sisters. On August 3, 1944, Paola and Lorenza, twins adopted by...
Edith Bruck’s Lost Bread
December 21, 2023Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
Literary scholar Gabriella Romani in conversation with Fabio Finotti presents Lost Bread by Edith Bruck, which she translated with David Yanoff. The Italian original, Il pane perduto (2021), was a finalist for the prestigious Premio...
A Lens on History: Lorenza Mazzetti’s Films
December 21, 2023Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
A Lens on History: Lorenza Mazzetti’s Films. Reservations: http://www.casaitaliananyu.org Alessandro Cassin will present and discuss excerpts of Lorenza Mazzetti’s films The Country Doctor (1953) and Together (1956) recently...
Re-thinking Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped in Eboli
December 21, 2023Hunter College Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424-North Bldg., Memoria, Programs
Lucus a Lucendo. A Place of Light ((2019, Caucaso/Luce Cinecittà). Film screening and panel discussion with the filmmakers, Alessandra Lancellotti and Enrico Masi. RSVP: in**@*************er.org Presented by CUNY Calandra Institute and...
Giorno della Memoria
December 21, 2023Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy, Memoria, Programs
Ceremony of Giorno della Memoria. Consulate General of Italy – 690 Park Avenue from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm Reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the territories under Italian rule. The ceremony is held each year in...
Roni Cohen (Columbia University, Tel Aviv University) As early as the twelfth century, Jewish parodic literature circulated conspicuously in Europe. Nearly all main texts of the Hebrew tradition was addressed in the form of parody: the...
Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges: 1938-1948
September 7, 2023CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, New York, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Memoria, Programs
Please join the Center for Modern Italian art and Centro Primo Levi for the inauguration of the exhibition of Corrado Cagli curated by Raffaele Bedarida and the presentation of CPL Editions’ new volume Corrado Cagli:...
Mine is the Golden Tongue
September 7, 2023New York Public Library. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
The poetic voice of Immanuel of Rome, a Jewish contemporary of Dante, reappears after 700 years in a staged reading of his sonnets by acclaimed actor Ronald Guttman with literary scholar Fabrizio Lelli. The occasion is the publication...
Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi
September 7, 2023Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Norman I. Silber, Hofstra University, in conversation with Judge Guido Calabresi, former Dean of the Yale Law School Alessandro Cassin, Centro Primo Levi Stefano Albertini, NYU. RSVP at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò “This book...
I can take liberties, I can invent scenarios. And why shouldn’t I—coming from Brazil, with Algerian roots—reimagine this history? It’s an incredible opportunity to see things differently. Karim Aïnouz Please join us for an evening with...
The “Fiume Question” Between Past and Present Nationalisms
April 11, 2023Georgetown University, College of Arts & Sciences Reiss, Programs
Introduction: Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Elettra La Duca (Italian Cultural Institute, Washington D.C.). “Where is Fiume?” Lucia Wolf (Library of Congress) will feature selected items from the Library of...
The Transient Worlds of Immanuel of Rome
April 11, 2023Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Isabelle Levy (Columbia University), Karla Mallette (University of Michigan), Fabrizio Lelli (University of Rome La Sapienza), Davide Liberatoscoli (University of Postdam), Dario Internullo (Università di Roma Tre). This program...
“A more noble desire undoes my heart”
March 14, 2023Vol de Nuit, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
A Sunday brunch conversation at Vol de Nuit with Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Lynn Westwater (George Washington University) and Ida Caiazza (Marie Curie Global Fellow, New York University) Co-presented by: Centro...
Western humanitarians pretended to act upon a kind of tabula rasa, when in fact there was no tabula rasa there, and there was a very long Ottoman humanitarian tradition. Davide Rodogno in conversation with Rajan Menon and Joshua Craze....
A Conversation: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Uri S. Cohen. A conversation among authors, scholars, and sages about history, power, and the Messiah. Starting with Walter Benjamin’s distinction between “weak” and...
PIOMBO: MUSIC FOR PRIMO LEVI
January 7, 2023Magazzino Italian Art, Magazzino Italian Art, Memoria, Programs
Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring – Transportation and reservations: www.magazzino.art This two-part performace inspired by the work of Primo Levi features the world premiere of Piombo (The Periodic Table), a solo work by...
A Poetry of Memory
December 29, 2022Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
International symposium focusing on Giorgio Bassani’s vast poetic production and his teaching periods in the United States (1976-80). On display, autograph letters written by the author in America along with original manuscripts...
Three Memoirs of Fiume
December 28, 2022Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
From the library and archive of Centro Primo Levi, we will read excerpts from the memoirs of Jewish women who grew up in Fiume and became victims of Fascist persecution. Each had a different story. Dominique Kirchner Reill (University...
When the Past Was Present
December 28, 2022CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, New York, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, Memoria, Programs
Ruth Ben Ghiat (New York University), Alexander Stille (Columbia University), Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union), and Natalia Indrimi (Centro Primo Levi NY) will present the film and propose some hypotheses on its history and production....
Critical Thinking in Action
December 28, 2022Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
This panel takes its title from the first volume in English of Eugenio Colorni’s writings and correspondence. Born in 1909, Colorni was a political philosopher and a teacher who entered the ranks of the anti-fascist movement. His...
Giorno della Memoria 2023
December 28, 2022Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy, Memoria, Programs
January 27 between 8:30 am and 2:00 pm Consulate General of Italy in New York 690 Park Avenue at 69th Street Each January 27, we read the names of 9,700 Jewish men, women and children deported from Italy and the Italian territories...
Historians’ Journeys
November 20, 2022Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Programs
4–6 December 2022 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 – With the Support of the Knapp Family Foundation. Schedule refers to Jerusalem time. Online Participation via...
Historians’ Journeys
November 20, 2022Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Programs
4–6 December 2022 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 – With the Support of the Knapp Family Foundation. Schedule refers to Jerusalem time. Online Participation via...
Historians’ Journeys
November 20, 2022Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Programs
Historians’ Journeys: Tales of Search and Research in the Understanding of Fascism 4–6 December 2022 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 – With the Support of the...
The Sabbadini Family Archive
September 30, 2022Ambasciata d’Italia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Programs
Presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Centro Primo Levi. On the occasion of the donation of the Alessandro Sabbadini Family Archive to the David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation. The...
A Children’s Paradise? The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48
September 30, 2022American Jewish Distribution Committee Archive, Programs
Presented by the JDC Archives and the Centro Primo Levi. Registration In a May 1947 memo, JDC worker Theodore Sanejberg described Italian children’s home, Selvino, as a “children’s paradise.” Less than a month later, however, he...
One Hundred Saturdays. Conversations with Stella Levi
August 26, 2022Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
BOOK LAUNCH Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and Centro Primo Levi present: One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. By Michael Frank. Illustrated by Maira Kalman, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022....
Brooke Gladstone (On the Media) in conversation with David Kertzer on his new book The Pope at War Registration Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer discusses his new book, The Pope at War, examining...
The Centro Leo Levi per lo studio del Patrimonio Liturgico Ebraico presents the Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, an online resource for cantors, scholars and the general public . This event is dedicated to the memory of three Italian...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: The Novel, the Film, and the Opera.
January 12, 2022Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Calandra Institute at CUNY, and Italian Academy at Columbia University present: A conversation: Stefano Albertini (Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, NYU), Anthony Tamburri (Calandra Institute, CUNY),...
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) presents: Robert S.C. Gordon (Cambridge University, UK) and Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union, New York), will discuss their recent research on the...
Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi) in conversation with Hans von Trotha (author) and David Kertzer (Pulitzer Prize winner for The Pope and Mussolini). REGISTER HERE A fascinating novel illuminates the chasm between civilization...
On January 27th, between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm, the Consulate General will host the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. The event is held in observance of International...
Aldo Braibanti and Sylvano Bussotti, a collaboration. An event of the Carnegie Hall Festival “Voices of Hope” – www.carnegiehall.org/voicesofhope Premiere screening of “The Scandal of the Imagination,” a...
Presentation of Serena Di Nepi’s new book: Surviving the Ghetto (Brill, 2021) Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome) in conversation with Emily Michelson (University of St. Andrews). Introduced and moderated by David Malkiel...
Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh and the Future of Religion
March 15, 2021Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Presentation of Clémence Boulouque’s new book Another Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2021) Clémence Boulouque (Columbia University) inc conversation with Jessica M. Marglin (University of Southern California). Another...
Presentation of the book by Valentina Pisanty (University of Bergamo), The Guardians of Memory, published by CPL Editions 2021. Participants: Valentina Pisanty (University of Bergamo), Michael Rothberg (UCLA), Omer Bartov (Brown...
January 27, 2021 will mark twenty years since the first commemoration of Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Italy. In New York, each year, the Consulate General of Italy has held the ceremony of the reading of the...
Ian Thomson in conversation with Alison Cornish and Federica Anichini. Click here to register “It might seem strange that a poem most emblematic of medieval Christianity, The Divine Comedy, should contain so many Arabic...
From a letter to my son. By Alessandro Cassin Dear L. I know your job involves making predictions about the short, medium and long term. That is what those who trade stocks, bonds, currencies, and derivatives do. Yet in a time when...
Not the law, and not even the conscience
April 4, 2020ChezLanu, Centro Primo Levi's intangible meetings, Programs
“Who could prohibit me from placing in the Mimete a gram or two of carbon atoms so that they would be honestly reconfigured in a tetrahedral arrangement, and then selling the result? No one: not the law, and not even the...
To attain silence one must listen to others, and in order to listen to others one must listen to oneself, start from oneself. Noisy breathing is not a physiological need, but a merely histrionic act which means: look and listen as I...
A boy hammers on a girl’s door. The girl doesn’t open it. The boy’s head is spinning. The girl’s head is spinning. Thousands of angels escort the sun on its way, LOVE A boy hammers on a girl’s door. The girl doesn’t open it. The boy’s...
You do not need to leave your room
March 21, 2020ChezLanu, Centro Primo Levi's intangible meetings, Programs
In the period between September 1917 and April 1918, while his world was in shambles (the Spanish Flu, the October Revolution, the Great War) Franz Kafka, after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, took up residence with his sister...
Exile and Creativity: Book Launch
February 25, 2020Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, Programs
This event has been cancelled. Giorgio Van Straten, Alessandro Cassin, Alexander Stille and Fraser Ottanelli. Exile and Creativity, published by CPL Editions, is a collection of essays from a program series held in 2017-18 by the...
Stradella’s “Ester, Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo”
February 24, 2020Center for Jewish History, Programs
Join the Jewish Music Forum, Salon Sanctuary, American Society for Jewish Music, and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò for an evening with ensemble members performing in Ester, Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo (“Esther, Liberator of...
Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994
February 7, 2020Museum of Modern Art (Theater 2), 11 West 53 Street, Programs
Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994, with a stage reading of a selection of the letters featuring Barbara Sukowa, Ronald Guttman and pianist Yali...
Sarah Stein in conversation with Aron Rodrigue on her new book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Click here to register The Levy family established itself in Salonica (now...
An exhibition of drawings from the internment camp, sketchbooks with notations on architecture, art history and decorative arts, sketches, paintings, family photographs and official papers. Curated by Cynthia Madansky In collaboration...
“Children imprisoned behind barbed wire! Here is one of the typical symptoms of this heroic age of ours. […] Some of these kids were born in detention, spent their entire childhood in the primitive huts of internment camps,...
Modernity, Fascism & Resistance: How Four Ethiopians Confronted, Maneuvered and Survived the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1941 Filmmaker Yemane Demissie’s forthcoming social-history documentary series, The Quantum Leapers: Ethiopia...
Dramatic reading of Maria Eisenstein’s diary Internee n.6, (1944), one of the earliest testimonies of life in a fascist concentration camp. Details to be announced. Excerpts for the reading are translated from the Italian...
The Italian Executioners: Italy and the Holocaust, 1943-45
November 21, 2019UCLA Alan Leve center for Jewish Studies, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) and Marla Stone (Occidental College). Sponsored by the Alan Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi NY. Free admission. Reserve your...
Giorno della Memoria: January 27, 2020
November 21, 2019Consulate General of Italy, Memoria, Programs
Join us for the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. Consulate General of Italy, January 27th, 2019 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. Click here to reserve a time to read. Giorno della...
Los Corassones Alan at 148 West 4th Street will close on Sunday, November 24th and 5 pm. We wish to thank all of the visitors who came and participated in shaping this installation with their questions and thoughts. We are grateful to...
Book launching: Eleanor Foa’s Mixed Messages
November 21, 2019Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, Programs
Eleanor Foa Dienstag in conversation with Meryl Gordon. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? No one. Journalist and author Eleanor Foa, born in Italy, raised in America, daughter of a brilliant father whose...
Stella Levi in conversation with Michael Frank
November 18, 2019Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, Programs
Women of Rhodes Stella Levi in conversation with Michael Frank about the grandmothers, mothers, older sisters, and younger cousins of the Juderia and how their lives changed – or didn’t – with the passage of time....
Dramatic reading from Efratia Gitai’s letters
November 17, 2019The Coronet Theater, 103 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3LB, Programs
European preview: Efratia Gitai’s Correspondence, CPL Editions New York 2019. Featuring: Makram J. Khoury, Yael Abecassi, Hanna Schygulla, Clara Khoury and special guest, Claire Bloom. One woman’s intimate record of the tumultuous...
Please join us for an evening of poetry at 148 West 4th Street. Visit the pop-up installation Los Corassones Avlan. This imaginary monologue on memory and history revisits the encounters and clashes between the Ottoman and European...
An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music
November 5, 2019Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, Programs
Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Adam Good (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on...
Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. 2008/Italy, 56 min., documentary, in Italian with English subtitles Written and directed by Rebecca Samonà. Produced by L’Altravista and...
Poetry from Al-Andalus to the Romansas
October 31, 2019Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, Programs
We continue the conversation on poetry from the perspective of Spanish Jewish practitioners. Isabelle Levy, Tamar Menashe, and Raymond P. Scheindlin will read poems in some of the languages of Sephardi Jews and discuss the...
Berkley-based psychologist Elliot Touriel discussed with Stella Levi their shared memories of Rhodes, how they made use of them during their lives, and where they lead us today. At Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, on November...
An Evening of Mediterranean and Balkan Music
October 31, 2019Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, Programs
Daphna Mor (voice, winds, percussion) and Kane Mathis (oud) return to Los Corassones Avlan with an intimate acoustic musical performances inspired by the tradition of families, women and neighbors sitting together to make music, on...
Enrico Fink and Jewish Liturgy in the Mediterranean
October 31, 2019Los Corassones Avlan, 148 West 4th Street, Programs
An afternoon tea with Enrico Fink, musician, scholar, improviser, chazan and story-teller from Florence who will talk and sing about the many influences and exchanges that shaped the liturgy of Jews all over the Mediterranean. At Los...
For over two hundred years, the island of Rhodes was ruled by the Knights of St. John who had taken it over from the Genoese after they lost Jerusalem to the Saladin in the First Crusade. The knights built a castle, palaces, imposing...
Film screening and conversation: The Island of Roses, Tragedy in Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà. ...
Please join us for an evening of poetry at 148 West 4th Street. Visit the pop-up installation Los Corassones Avlan. This imaginary monologue on memory and history revisits the encounters and clashes between the Ottoman and European...
Centro Primo Levi and the Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Kehila Kedosha Janina and the American Sephardi Federation present: Los Corassones Avlan. Conversations on Jewish Life...
The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victim and Perpetrator
August 13, 2019The Rifkind Center, 160 Convent Avenue, Programs
Michael Rothberg (UCLA) will discuss his new book in conversation with Gil Hochberg (Columbia University). Presented by the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts at the City College of New York in collaboration with Centro...
Primo Levi at 100. Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi
May 21, 2019Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. Program presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. From the Preface I did not choose to write Levi’s...
Presentation of a new anthology edited by poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely, offering a uniquely varied look at a theme both ancient and urgently contemporary. Reception to follow. André Naffis-Sahely, Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf...
Uri Cohen: Affection and Survival: Primo Levi and Friendship in the Camp Affection is a lesser known aspect of the human and Jewish experience in the camps. Mostly it is related to the fractured past of which the camp is the present....
Primo Levi at 100
March 29, 2019New York Public Library, Italian Cultural Institute, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
To celebrate the centennial of Primo Levi’s birth, writers, performers, and scholars gather for a multilingual, full-length reading of his seminal memoir. Promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the New...
Pankaj Mishra Reads The Drowned and the Saved This lecture inaugurates a series of programs to mark Primo Levi’s Hundredth Anniversary held at various venues in town, including the New York Public Library, the Italian Cultural...
Exile and Creativity: Saul Friedländer and Carlo Ginzburg
February 1, 2019Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
The series comes to an end with a conversation between two of the most renowned historians of our time: Carlo Ginzburg and Saul Friedländer. From: Wooden Eyes. Nine Reflections on Distance. by Carlo Ginzburg, Columbia University Press,...
Exile and Creativity: Franco Modigliani
February 1, 2019Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
As part of the Exile and Creativity series organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Renato Camurri will discuss the work of the Nobel Laureate economist, Franco Modigliani. “My mother and...
Exhibition: 1938-1945 The Persecution of Jews in Italy A Documentary History
December 20, 2018Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, Memoria, Programs
Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi, 12 E 96th Street 1938-1945 The Persecution of Jews in Italy A Documentary History A traveling Exhibition by the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan. January 25-February 6 The...
Toscanini Against Fascism. A Conversation with the Minds Behind “Maestro”
December 20, 2018Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Eve Wolf, Executive Artistic Director of ERC, Donald T. Sanders, Director of Theatrical Production of ERC, Harvey Sachs (Author of Toscanini: Musician of Conscience). Moderated by Stefano Albertini (NYU) Further information Ensemble...
Film screening and panel discussion with the filmmaker and scholars Pentcho (2018) By Stefano Cattini Produced by Sonne Film, Mosaic Film, RAI Cinema, Emilia Romagna Film Commission. Between the years 1934 and 1939, illegal...
Magnifico in New York Corrado Cagli, Migrating Artists, and the Mirage of Italy
December 19, 2018The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Memoria, Programs
As part of the Carnegie Hall Migrations Festival, Centro Primo Levi and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts present an evening with art historian Raffaele Bedarida dedicated to the experience of Italian artist and...
Continuing the series “Exile and Creativity,” this evening explores the lives and works of the writer and political activist Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (1870-1954) and her granddaughter, the avantgard poet, Amelia Rosselli...
Film screening and discussion with Giorgio Treves (filmmaker), Ernest Ialongo (Hostos Community College, CUNY) and Nina Valbousquet (Fordham University) 1938 – Diversi (2018), By Giorgio Treves Produced by Tangram Film/Roberto...
Film screening and discussion with Peter Stastny and Paola Mieli (Après-coup Psychoanalytic Association) Redemption Blues (2017). By Peter Stastny. Produced by Peter Stastny, Lucia Schrenk, Roland Hablesreiter – Transmitter Film...
Join us for the ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories. Consulate General of Italy, January 28th, 2019 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. Information: in**@*************er.org January...
Paolo Milano and Renato Poggioli. Exile and Creativity Series.
November 19, 2018Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
An evening dedicated to Paolo Milano and Renato Poggioli, two Italian intellectuals instrumental in the development of a cultural dialogue between Italy and the United States, particularly in the fields of literature and comparative...
Shalom Italia
November 18, 2018Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
A film by Tamar Tal Anati. Italy, November 1943. The Italian Social Republic orders the arrest of all Jews present on its territory. A Florentine family, the Gnagnattis, composed of parents, four children and two grandmothers, flees...
You are cordially invited to join us for an evening dedicated to the Italian silk talit tradition. Presenters: Dora Piperno, Celeste Pavoncello Piperno, Rav Umberto Piperno Tasting of kosher Italian bottarga, wine and citron sweets...
Fascism and the “Defense of Race”
October 23, 2018Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sasson Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
FASCISM AND THE “DEFENCE OF RACE” From 1938 Racial Laws to the Present November 4-5, 2018, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rabin Building, Mount Scopus Campus. Visit: www.sicsa.huji.ac.il Saturday, 3 November 2018 Hevrat...
The series continues with a panel discussion that explores the experience of two Italian artists: Corrado Cagli and Costantino Nivola, who fled Fascist Italy for America and whose experience of exile become a platform to reflect upon...
When the American Press Flirted with Fascism
September 1, 2018Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Ruth Ben Ghiat and Alexander Stille in conversation with Mauro Canali on his new research and book La scoperta dell’Italia on American correspondents in Fascist Italy. Respondent to be announced. Co-presented by Casa Italiana Zerilli...
Reading and panel discussion on Elsa Morante’s La Storia (History, a Novel). In Italian with English translation. Organized by Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute on the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of...
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
August 6, 2018CUNY Graduate Center Room C201/C202, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Book talk with Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton University Press, 2018) In conversation with Alexander Stille (Columbia)...
Rome and Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Cities
May 24, 2018Università La Sapienza, Rome, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
The Rome Lab, Centro Primo Levi’s collaboration with the University of Rome La Sapienza, continues with Paula Fredriksen’s inaugural lecture for La Sapienza’s newly established Master Course in Jewish History. The...
Jewish Publishing in Italy: A Conversation with Shulim Vogelmann
April 19, 2018NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
A conversation with Shulim Vogelman (La Giuntina, Florence) Born in Florence in 1978, Shulim Vogelmann received a degree in History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and went on to become director of the Giuntina Publishing house...
Creativity and Exile: Ascoli and Salvemini
April 19, 2018Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
The series aims at highlighting the stories of Italian artists, scientists, and intellectuals forced to leave Italy for political reasons and racial persecution, and come to the United States. Historians Renato Camurri and Federico...
Antisemitism, Racism, and Genocide. The Question of Liberty.
April 17, 2018The New School for Social Research, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Manuela Consonni (The Hebrew University and Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism). Introduced and moderated by Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research). Copresented by the History...
Michele Sarfatti, “Jews in Italy and Nazi and Fascist Persecution. Themes for Future Research.”
April 17, 2018Italian Academy at Columbia University, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
This lecture by Michele Sarfatti Introduced by David Kertzer, is sponsored by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, and presented on the...
Michele Sarfatti. Seminar on the Race Law (1938-2018).
April 15, 2018Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Seminar. An introduction to the study of Mussolini’s Racial Laws presented by one of the leading scholars in the field. Organized by Centro Primo Levi with Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. NYU Departments of Italian and History....
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and the infinitely small is sufficient to...
Primo Levi for the Public
March 8, 2018UCLA Faculty Center, California Room, American Sephardic Federation, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Viterbi Symposium in Mediterranean Jewish Studies Series. Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies This half-day symposium brings together a group of distinguished, international scholars engaged with the life, writings, and impact of...
Money Must Stay in The Family
February 15, 2018Center for Jewish History, American Sephardic Federation, Programs
Centro Primo Levi presents Alain Elkann’s quasi-autobiographical novel Money Must Stay in the Family (CPL EDITIONS, 2018) together with recently restored family home movies shot in the 1930’s. Presented in collaboiration with the...
Creativity and Exile: Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
February 13, 2018Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra op. 207 (1966), voice and guitar. Luigi Attademo, guitar Free and open to the public. Make a reservation. Musing his own life and exile in the last years of life, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo...
Creativity and Exile: Arturo Toscanini
February 13, 2018Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
The second session of the series Creativity and Exile features the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini who left fascist Italy in protest of Mussolini’s Racial Laws and settled in America where he left a profound mark on the way...
Exile and Creativity: Enrico Fermi
February 13, 2018Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
This series presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi highlights the stories of those Italian artists, scientists, and intellectuals who were forced to leave Fascist Italy for political reasons...
Humanitarianism and the Century of Wars
February 13, 2018The New School for Social Research, Wolff Conference Room D1103, Department of History, The New School, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Historians Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute) and Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin) will present and discuss their current research on cases in which, during the century that was theater to two world conflicts, the notion of...
Studying Survival in the Context of Persecution
January 16, 2018Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Memoria, Programs
Groundbreaking research project opens new avenues to understand survival. Welcoming remarks: Consul General of Italy Francesco Genuardi Introduction: Andrew Viterbi. Liliana Picciotto (Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation),...
Nation-Building through Antisemitism
January 10, 2018Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
Nation-Building through Antisemitism: Fascist Italy and the Jew as Internal Enemy Ernest Ialongo, Associate Professor of History at Hostos Community College of The City University of New York. In 1938, Italian Fascist dictator Benito...
Iom Romì at the New York Jewish Film Festival
December 24, 2017Film Society of Lincoln Center- Walter Read Theater, New York Jewish Film Festival, Programs
Iom Romì, a short film born within the Rome Lab, will be screened at the New York Jewish Film Festival on January 21 together with the Della Seta home movies. Don’t miss them! The Rome Lab, dedicated to the encounter between...
Italian Authorities in Occupation Areas and the Nazi Extermination of the Jews
December 24, 2017Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, Memoria, Programs
This program is organized through a partnership between Centro Primo Levi and the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies. It is held at the Italian Academy and is meant for students and faculty. Reservation os required. Visit the...
Refugees, Rescue Efforts and International Politics: The Case of Angelo Donati
December 23, 2017Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
Luca Fenoglio (University of Leicester), is the author of Angelo Donati e la “questione ebraica” nella Francia occupata dall’esercito italiano (Silvio Zamorani, 2013). In this presentation he will analyze the rescue...
Join us for the annual ceremony of the reading of the names. On January 29, 2018, the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute and our academic partners, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the...
The Music of Aldo Finzi
November 13, 2017Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium /Perelman Stage, Memoria, Programs
The Garden State Philarmonic Orchestra and the Aldo Finzi Association present for the first time at Carnegie Hall Aldo Finzi’s symphonic music. Program “Shylock” – Ouverture La serenata al Vento – Arie Liriche Sonata per violino...
On October 16th at 6:00 pm, the Rome Lab will present a film screening dedicated to the memory of the over 2,000 Jewish men, women and children who were rounded up and deported Auschwitz on October 16th, 1943 and during the following 9...
Orlando Furioso: The Knights and his Jewish Readers
September 25, 2017Center for Jewish History, Programs
Michela Andreatta, University of Rochester, Serena Di Nepi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Jane Tylus, New York University Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org In 2016 and 2017 Italy celebrated the...
The Arch of Titus, the Jews and the Ceremony of the Adventus
September 25, 2017Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
Marina Caffiero, University of Rome La Sapienza. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Marina Caffiero will discuss the symbolism of the ceremony of the Papal adventus, its transformation over time and...
Giuseppe Valadier’s Restoration of the Arch of Titus
September 24, 2017Center for Jewish History, Programs
Gallery talk. Giuseppe Valadier’s Restoration of the Arch of Titus. Marina Caffiero, University of Rome La Sapienza. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Very little of what we see today of the Arch of...
Two 18th Century Roman Jews in Eretz Israel: Amadio Abbina and Sabato Isacco Ambron. Asher Salah, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org July 9, 1746. In the...
The City of Rome as Storehouse of Jewish Artifacts
September 24, 2017Center for Jewish History, Programs
Ra’anan Boustan, Princeton University. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org The Jewish inhabitants of medieval Rome, like their Christian neighbors, dwelt in a landscape crowded with monuments to and...
Dressing the Sacred Text: Mappòt, Me’ilim and Parochyot in the Synagogues of Rome
September 24, 2017Center for Jewish History, Programs
Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Alessandra Di Castro, Museo Ebraico di Roma, Serena Di Nepi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto, Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, Olga...
Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto, Collegio Rabbinico Italiano. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Traditions of Roman Jews: Life and Religion In the history of the Jewish people, the minhag (custom) has not...
To be a scribe in Italy: A Century Old Legacy Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto, Collegio Rabbinico Italiano. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org According to scholars a great part of the most precious Jewish...
Rome and the Jews at the Times of the Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi, University of Rome La Sapienza. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org By establishing ghettos in the Papal States, in 1555 Pope Paul IV...
This session will explore the rabbinical elite’s views of the Romans and the foundational story of Yavneh. Amram Tropper, Ben Gurion University, Ron Naiweld, French, National Centre for Scientific Research -Moderator: Shai Secunda,...
Frivolous, Ironic and Erotic Like the Bible: The Poetry of Immanuel da Roma
September 24, 2017Center for Jewish History, Programs
Frivolous, Ironic and Erotic Like the Bible: The Poetry of Immanuel da Roma. Ann Brener, Library of Congress, Isabelle Levy, Columbia University. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Born around 1261...
The Jerusalem Temple in the Jewish Renaissance. Imagining Spaces Beyond Historical Boundaries. Giuseppe Veltri, University of Hamburg. The destruction of the Temple in the first century was not the end of the sacred meaning of a...
“Io so’ jodìo romano”: The Jewish-Roman Dialect Out of the Ghetto Daniel Leisawitz, Muhlenberg College Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org This presentation examines the life-long project of the...
Minority, Religion and Roman Law, Alessandro Saggioro, University of Rome La Sapienza and Seth Schwarz, Columbia University. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org This event has been postponed. A film...
Join acclaimed historian Paula Fredriksen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on a fascinating journey into the formative era of Western Judaism. Free and open to the public. Reservations: ro*****@*************er.org Everyone knows that...
Join Centro Primo Levi and Kehilah Kedosha Janina for Quabbalat Shabbat, Shabbat service and Selichot with Rav Alberto Funaro and Rav Nissim Elnecavé. Service will be held according to the Roman and the Spanish traditions. Service is...
The first session of the Rome Lab features Rav Alberto Funaro, teacher and cantor of the Spanish Temple in Rome. Join us to learn the most beautiful tunes of the Roman liturgy for the Selichot and the High Holidays. Free and open to...
On September 14th, 2017, Centro Primo Levi and the Jewish Museum of Rome will open a learning space, the Rome Lab, dedicated to the history of the Roman Jews and of the twenty-two centuries relations between Rome and Jerusalem. The...
This presentation by Centro Primo Levi of a selection of books from the Renato Maestro Library and Archive in Venice and the Library of Congress, is meant as an invitation to discover the dawn of Hebrew printing and its impact on the...
Centro Primo Levi, in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Library of Congress and The Jewish Museum, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, as part of...
The Italian Chazanut Roudtable is a project of Italian Jewish music and liturgy established in memory of Erna Finci Viterbi z’l, whose love for tradition and dedication to learning have profoundly contributed to shape the...
To Be or Not: Considering Primo Levi’s Death.
January 14, 2017Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
In collaboration with the Center for Fiction Uri S. Cohen (University of Tel Aviv) We will never know what exactly took place thirty years ago when Primo Levi fell to his death in the stairwell of his ancestral home. The moment...
This program is at capacity. Limited standing room tickets may become available on a first-come, first-served basis. Centro Primo Levi, in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Library of Congress and The Jewish...
Giorno della Memoria. Reading of the Names.
January 5, 2017Consulate General of Italy, Consulate General of Italy, Memoria, Programs
Ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories. Opening remarks by Consul General Francesco Genuardi. Rabbi Nissim Elnecavé will recite kaddish before the beginning of the reading. During...
Under Glass. Museums and the Display of History.
January 5, 2017Multiple Venues. Details will be published on January 15th, Memoria, Programs
Museums and the Memory of Nazi-Fascism, the Holocaust and World War II: Toward a Shared European History? Morning session: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon (faculty and students only. rsvp to in**@*************er.org specifying affiliation)....
Paper Lives. Not-A-Monument.
January 5, 2017Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
Paper Lives. The Little Known Story of Foreign Jews Interned in Italy Presentation: Anna Pizzuti, curator of the database and historical portal on foreign Jews in Italy during World War II, presents her work. Film screening: E42 by...
Andrew Viterbi. Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur
November 8, 2016Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
Andrew Viterbi in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto Centro Primo Levi and The Italian Cultural Institute are pleased to present Andrew Viterbi’s memoir Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur (CPL Editions, Memoirs...
Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton on Arnaldo Momigliano
October 27, 2016CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art, Programs
Historians Anthony Grafton and Carlo Ginzburg will discuss the work of Arnaldo Momigliano, one of the most distinguished 20th-century scholars of ancient and modern history. In 1939, following the passage of Italy’s racial laws,...
A fresh view: Primo Levi’s Complete Works
October 10, 2016Italian Academy at Columbia University, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
CPL Recommends: A dialogue between Ann Goldstein and Marco Belpoliti, editors of Levi’s Complete Works respectively in English and Italian Marco Belpoliti, essayist and writer, teaches at the University of Bergamo, contributes to...
If Only I Were That Warrior
July 31, 20162 West 64th Street, New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York Society for Ethical Culture, Programs
Panel discussion with the director and producer (5:30 pm) and film screening (7:15 pm). Directed by Valerio Ciriaci, an Italian filmmaker based in Brooklyn, is a documentary focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935....
Venice, the Jews and Europe 1516-2016. Book Presentation
July 31, 2016Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, Marsilio Editore, Programs
Writer and cultural critic Alain Elkann in conversation with Donatella Calabi, curator of the 500th Anniversary exhibition on the Venice ghetto. Presented by Marsilio Editori and Rizzoli in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi....
Primo Levi at the National Book Festival
July 27, 2016Library of Congress, Library of Congress, National Book Festival, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Primo Levi’s Complete Works at the 16th National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Download Primo Levi’s chronology and historical timeline Visit the Book Festival Website Panel An extraordinary roster of writers,...
Fascism and Italian American Culture
July 27, 2016Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Seminar in Italian Jewish Studies Presented by Centro Primo Levi – NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and Department of History Introduction: Ruth Ben Ghiat (New York University) Fraser Ottanelli (University of South Florida)...
Join us Tisha B’Av day for a screening of Oro Macht Frei and a lecture by Rabbi Richard Hilary. All programs are free and open to the public. No reservation is required. Information After Italy’s Armistice with the Allies (Sept 8,...
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism
June 7, 2016Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism, From Florence to Jerusalem and New York Introduction: Giorgio Van Straten (Italian Cultural Institute), Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi) Speakers: Patrizia Guarneri...
La Città degli Ebrei/The City of the Jews: Segregated Space and the Admission of Strangers in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice
May 13, 2016Library of Congress, Italian Embassy, Library of Congress, Programs
The Law Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, will host a program on Tuesday, May 24 to mark the 500th...
Theatrical reading and meeting with actors and director of the Compagnia de’ Colombari Featuring: Reg. E. Cathey, Emmy Award Winning Actor and Members of Compagnia de’ Colombari, Karin Coonrod, Founder and Artistic Director,...
On the 100th Anniversary of Giorgio Bassani’s birth and on the occasion of the publication of his American lectures by CPL Editions. Opening remarks by Giorgio Van Straten, director of the ICI, Dalia Sofer (writer), Andrea...
Science Fiction? Francesco Cassata Reads from Primo Levi
April 2, 2016Center for Jewish History, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
A reading from Primo Levi’s Complete Works by Francesco Cassata, University of Genoa. Cassata’s presentation is part of the Seventh Primo Levi Lecture, funded in 2015 by the Turin Primo Levi International Center. The Lecture has...
Primo Levi at the United Nations
April 2, 2016United Nations Headquarters, Trusteeship Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, Primo Levi Forum, Memoria, Programs
After the Holocaust – Primo Levi and the Nexus of Science, Responsibility and Humanism The Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme in partnership with the Centro Primo Levi New York invite you to a roundtable discussion....
Centro Primo Levi recommends this program in the Washington area. FESTIVAL EBRAICO. MUSIC OF THE JEWS IN ITALY: A LECTURE WITH MUSICAL SELECTIONS Hazzan Dr. Ramón Tasat and The Kolot HaLev Ensemble, Mike Langlois, piano...
Americordo : The Italian Jewish Exiles in America
March 28, 2016Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Book presentation:Americordo. The Italian Jewish Exiles in America by Gianna Pontecorboli Guest speaker: Judge Guido Calabresi “A fascinating and intriguing book that traces networks of kinship and relationships that reverberate into...
What the Allies Knew: Information and the Challenges of Humanitarian Intervention
March 23, 2016Italian Academy at Columbia University, Programs
Film screening: What the Allies Knew (2015) by Virginie Linhart, produced by Cinetevè, historical supervision by Henry Rousso Registration is required Speakers: Umberto Gentiloni (University of Rome and author of Bombardare Auschwitz?,...
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Marking the 500th anniversary of the...
Giorno della Memoria in New York is a collaborative initiative of the Consulate General of Italy with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Italian Academy at Columbia University,...
Manuela Consonni. Reading from Primo Levi’s Complete Works
February 2, 2016Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Job, Primo Levi and the Search for Roots Manuela Consonni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) In The Search for Roots (1981), Primo Levi discusses four books that shaped his intellectual and individual itinerary. Defining the horizon...
Film Screening and discussion with the film makers: Oro Macht Frei (Ottimo Film) Directed by Jeffrey Bonna. Produced by Jeffrey Bonna and Catherine Campbell. Executive Producer Joel Markel. Original music composed and performed by...
The Eclipse of Antifascism Manuela Consonni and Michael Livingston
February 1, 2016Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Opening remarks: Stefano Albertini (Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò) and Natalia Indrimi (Centro Primo Levi). Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Michael Livingston (Rutgers University) Manuela Consonni’s new book,...
Manuela Consonni at the Wiesenthal Center
January 28, 2016Simon Wiesenthal Center – Museum of Tolerance, Programs
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Centro Primo Levi are pleased to welcome Prof. Manuela Consonni, newly appointed director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
Republishing Renzo De Felice’s “The Jews in Fascist Italy”: Historiographical Archeology or Revisionism ?
January 28, 2016John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Programs
De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy: An Historical Appraisal On the occasion of the paperback reprint of Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy, this panel will explore the genesis of the book and its place in contemporary...
Giorno della Memoria in New York is a collaborative initiative of the Consulate General of Italy with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Italian Academy at Columbia University,...
Book conversation: Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca Guidetti Serra (CPL Editions, 2015) Opening remarks: Giorgio Van Straten (Italian Cultural Institute) Guri Schwarz (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo...
The Della Seta family films shot in 1923, featuring weddings, leisure time and other daily activities, are the only known video document of Italian Jewish life before the Holocaust. The Italian journalist Claudio Della Seta found the...
Primo Levi Reading. Jonathan Galassi and André Naffis-Sahely on Poetry
November 25, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Reading and conversation on Primo Levi’s poems and writing on poetry. André Naffis-Sahely (poet and translator) and Jonathan Galassi (translator of Primo Levi’s poems. Editor in chief, Farrar Straus Giroux). Jonathan Galassi, novelist,...
On Translating and Being Translated. Ann Goldstein and Esther Allen
November 25, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Reading and conversation on “On Translating and Being Translated”, (Other People’s Trades) Ann Goldstein (editor of Primo Levi’s Complete Works) and Esther Allen (Baruch College) “To Translate and Be Translated” from: Primo Levi, Other...
On the Grey Zone. Michael Rothberg
November 25, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Reading and discussion from The Drowned and the Saved. Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The Nazi genocide of European Jews has frequently been described as the paradigm of modern evil. More than any other...
I am Counting on You, on Everyone. A CPL Edition Book.
October 19, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Gemma Vitale Servadio, I am Counting on You, on Everyone… (CPL Editions, 2015) Introduction by Mirella Bedarida Shapiro. With an essay by historian Marco Coslovich. Translated by Alta Price. Speakers: Alessandro Cassin,...
Library Readings from Primo Levi’s Complete Works
October 19, 2015Multiple venues, Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Held in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Center for Fiction NORMALITY October 21, 7:00 pm, Center for Fiction, | 17 E. 47th Street. A conversation based on A Silver...
CPL Editions’ Book-talk. Two Childhood Memoirs
October 19, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Speakers Susan Zuccotti, Eric Mayer, Shaul Bassi Olga Tarcali, Return to Erfurt, Story of a Shattered Childhood: 1935-1945, Preface by Serge Klarsfeld and an introduction by Susan Zuccotti (CPL Editions 2015) Roberto Bassi, Skirmishes...
With David Remnick, Bob Weil and Ann Goldstein. Special guest, the writer’s son, Renzo Levi. After 12 years of work, W.W. Norton presents Primo Levi’s Complete Works in English. Thus Levi becomes the first Italian writer...
Merima Ključo, composer and accordionist, Bart Woodstrup, artist, Seth Knopp, pianist A multimedia work composed by Merima Ključo. Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book traces the incredible journey of this most treasured 14th-century...
Seminar: Of the Jewish Race
July 29, 2015Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
What the documents – Italian legal, administrative, and judicial sources – showcase emphatically is the central role of lawyers in the Race Laws implementation, laws that address who could own radios or homes, who could operate a...
SPAZI METRICI – An encounter with the life and work of Amelia Rosselli (Paris, 1930- Rome, 1996). The daughter of the Italian anti-fascist leader Carlo Rosselli and the English Labour Party activist Marion Cave, Amelia spent her...
Toscanini: A Conductor Stands up for Justice
April 3, 2015United Nations Headquarters, Trusteeship Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, Memoria, Programs
Organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and B’nai B’rith International. The celebrated Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is...
André Naffis-Sahely’s translation of Alessandro Spina’s colonial epic
April 2, 2015CPL at SF Vanni, Programs
André Naffis-Sahely will discuss the work of Alessandro Spina (1927-2013), a Syrian Maronite born in Benghazi who wrote in Italian. Spina received the Bagutta Prize in 2007 for his 1280 page opus The Confines of the Shadow (I confini...
On March 30th from 1 pm to 5 pm Centro Primo Levi will screen films and documentaries from its collection. Special feature of the day will be Emanuele Luzzati’s and Giulio Gianini’s Oscar nominated animation La Gazza Ladra (1964) with...
Centro Primo Levi with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Rome and the Consulate General of Italy present “Unrecovered Memory: The Jewish Communal Library of...
Screening and discussion: a work in progress on the Italian occupation in Ethiopia
February 8, 2015CPL at SF Vanni, Memoria, Programs
The idea for If Only I Were That Warrior, took shape in February 2013 when director Valerio Ciriaci and producer Isaak Liptzin attended a panel discussion on the recently inaugurated monument to Rodolfo Graziani organized by the...
Film Screening: Oro MachtFrei Directed by Jeffrey Bonna. Produced by Jeffrey Bonna and Catherine Campbell. Executive Producer Joel Markel. Original music composed and performed by Yotam Haber. Post screening discussion: Catherine...
The Discovery of the Archives of the Carabinieri of Rhodes
January 20, 2015John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Memoria, Programs
Marco Clementi (University of Calabria) will present the first results of the survey conducted on the records of the special bureau of the Italian Carabinieri in Rhodes (today Greece, between 1912 and 1946 Italy). The archive was...
January 27 at 6:00 pm Ambasciata d’Italia, 3000 Whitehaven St, NW, Washington, DC 20008 Opening remarks: H.E. Ambassador Claudio Bisognero. Post screening discussion: Marco Clementi, University of Calabria. With an introduction of...
Sixty Years of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan
January 20, 2015Memoria, Programs
In collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Opening remarks, Giorgio Sacerdoti (President, CDEC) Liliana Picciotto (Director of Research, CDEC) Starting in the last...
Giacomo Moscati, vice-president of the Jewish Community of Rome and Joyce Sarner, documentarian. Giacomo Moscati offers a visual tour of the museum and its magnificent silver and textile collections, introducing the public to the...
Launching of the first books published by CPL Editions (see www.primolevicenter.org) Visual history of S.F. Vanni through historical family photographs Visit the old space and the new one, linking the present to the last memories of...
The Man with the Nagra, 2013 Written and Directed by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman, Produced by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman and Johanna Levi, Language: Hebrew and Italian with English subtitles The Man with the Nagra, narrates the life and work of...
Jacques Faitlovich and the Lost Tribes
September 20, 2014Center for Jewish History, Memoria, Programs
Jacues Faitlovich and the Lost Tribes A film by Maurice and Sarah Dorés – Presented by the American Sephardi Federation The “extraordinary odyssey” of Jacques Faïtlovitch, a Polish Jew who, in 1904,...
Ethiopian Jews Under Fascist Rule
August 8, 2014NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar
Presented with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Department of Italian Studies, Department of History. This year the Italian Jewish Studies Project is held in connection with the international symposium Legacies of the Italian...
Giacomo Matteotti’s Murder and the Rise of the Totalitarian State
May 2, 2014Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Presented jointly with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Consulate General of Italy on the 90th Anniversary of Matteotti’s murder and Italian National Day. Held with the endorsement of the President of the Italian Republic....
The Jews of Libya Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era
April 25, 2014Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
David Meghnagi (University of Rome 3) Mordechai HaCohen: Rabbi and Ethnographer Mordekahi Cohen (1856 – 1929) was a prominent rabbi in the Libyan Jewish community. A talmudic scholar, he compiled a monumental work on the Jews of...
LAJSA Conference: Annalisa Capristo, An Overview of the Italian Jewish Immigration in South America
April 20, 2014CUNY Graduate Center, Memoria, Programs
Third Regional New York Conference, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, Americas Society, CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Science. DOWNLOAD LAJSA CONFERENCE PROGRAM After the promulgation of the Fascist anti-Semitic...
Twentieth-Century Italy and Italian Jews. Two Lectures by Ilaria Pavan
April 1, 2014CUNY Graduate Center, Programs
Thursday, May 1 | 6 pm The Attitudes of Italian Jews Towards Fascism in the 1920s Thursday, May 8 | 6 pm Not Facing the Past: Italian Post-Fascist Policies Towards the Jews, 1945-2001 Thursday, May 1 | 6:00 PM The Attitudes of Italian...
Places and Life of the Jewish Diaspora in Southern Italy
February 20, 2014Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
CESARE COLAFEMMINA’S PIONEERING RESEARCH Mauro Perani (University of Bologna, Italian Association for Jewish Studies) JEWS AS INTELLECTUAL MEDIATORS IN 15TH CENTURY SOUTHERN ITALY Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, University of...
David Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini
January 20, 2014Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Presentation of David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Random House 2014). Panelists: David Kertzer (Brown University), Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University), Robert...
Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia presents Witnesses of Rebirth: Jewish Refugees in Apulia Introductory remarks by Andrea Canepari Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia and by Rabbi Albert Gabbai Congregation Mikveh Israel....
A Tribute to Rita Levi Montalcini Exploring Nerve Growth Factor Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NY, (10 am to 1 pm) Opening remarks: Riccardo Viale (ICI) Introduction: Moses Chao (NYU) Speakers: Piergiorgio Strata...
Centro Primo Levi is proud to co-host with the Italian Cultural Institute an evening dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of L’Indice and the 50th Anniversary of the New York Review of Books with Gian Giacomo Migone, Robert Silvers,...
A Sunday afternoon of music and film presented by Salon/Sanctuary Concerts in collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Heritage and Centro Primo Levi. Curated by Jessica Gould. Program: Instrumental overture The trio sonatas of...
Presented by the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies at CUNY. January 27 |...
The Lateran Pacts, the Rights of the Jews and Other Religious Minorities A Chapter in the History of Church and State Relations
December 5, 2013Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
October 24 | 5:00 pm Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance 226 E 42nd St New York October 25 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò | 24 West 12th Street The program is free. Reservations are required at...
Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust
November 10, 2013Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become...
Telos Journal’s 45th Anniversary! A Presentation of the Latest issue on Fascism and the Jews
September 20, 2013Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Centro Primo Levi is is pleased to join Marie Piccone, Franklin Adler and Russel Berman for a presentation of the latest issue of Telos “Italian Jews and Fascism” with the editors, contributors and friends. After the panel, a cocktail...
Beyond the Ghetto: New Research Perspectives on the History of Jews in Italy
April 12, 2013NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Marina Caffiero is Professor Early Modern History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and directs the PhD section of the Department of History, Cultures and Religions. She is the author of Forced Baptisms –...
The Force of Things, A Marriage in war a Peace. A Conversation with Alexander Stille
April 10, 2013Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Elizabeth and Misha, Alexander Stille’s mother and father, met in May 1948 at a party for Truman Capote. She came to the party with her husband at the time, Bob, and left with Misha. Within a week, she’d moved out of the apartment...
Ferramonti, 70 Years After the Liberation
March 20, 2013Centro Ebraico Il Pitigliani, Memoria, Programs
“Children imprisoned behind barbed wire! Here is one of the typical symptoms of this heroic age of ours. It will be for future generations to assess guilt and punishment for this imprisoned youth. The biological, psychological and...
A Song for Life | Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
March 1, 2013Museum of Jewish Heritage, Programs
CHARLETTE SHULAMIT OTTOLENGHI: A SONG FOR LIFE Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland and the Consulate General of Italy on the occasion on the 70th Anniversary...
Honoring War Criminals: The Monument to Rodolfo Graziani
January 31, 2013Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Memoria, Programs
January 31 at 6:30 pm Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, 24 West 43rd Street Lidia Santarelli (Brown University), Yemane Demissie (New York University). Moderator: Andrea Fiano (journalist and former Chairman of CPL)....
Il Ragazzo di Via Sacchi: A Tribute to EmanueleArtom
January 24, 2013Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria
January 24 at 6:00 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 868 Park Avenue Il ragazzo di Via Sacchi (2011) a documentary film by Francesco Momberti Post-screening discussion: Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa) and Tullio Levi (former president...
Presenters: Consulate General of Italy in New York, Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Centro Primo Levi New York. All...
The Longest Journey. The Last Days of the Jews of Rhodes
January 20, 2013Museum of Jewish Heritage, Memoria, Programs
The Museum of Jewish Heritage and Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with CDEC and the Shoah Museum of Rome present: THE LONGEST JOURNEY. THE LAST DAYS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF RHODES (2013) a film by Ruggero Gabbai, historical...
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 with author John Connelly
November 20, 2012Simon Wiesenthal Center – Museum of Tolerance, Programs
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an...
From Ghetto to Palazzo: Vocal Works of Salamone Rossi Hebreo
October 20, 2012The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Salon Sanctuary, Programs
A program presented by Salon Sanctuary in collaboration with the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Centro Primo Levi. Pre-concert lecture by scholar Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life at...
Il Grido della Terra (The Earth Cries Out)
September 20, 2012Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Film Screening and Roundtable: Il Grido della Terra, directed by Duilio Colletti, 1949 Guri Schwarz, Stefano Albertini, Wendy Gittler The film is presented in collaboration with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia –...
Covering Fascist Italy: American Correspondents and Regime Censorship
September 20, 2012Simon Wiesenthal Center – Museum of Tolerance, Programs
Mauro Canali (University of Camerino, author of The Regime’s Spies), David Kertzer (Brown University, author of The Popes Against the Jews, The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism). David Kertzer will discuss Mauro...
Robert Gordon has published widely on 20th-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history. He is the author or editor of several books on the work of Primo Levi, including Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues, Auschwitz Report...
Guri Schwarz: Visiting Lecturer in Italian Jewish Studies
September 1, 2012Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
After Mussolini: The Reintegration of the Jewish Communities in Post-War Italy Guri Schwarz(University of Pisa) Introduction: Ruth Ben Ghiat (New York University) Respondent: Paul Arpaia (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Download...
Robert Gordon: The Holocaust in Italian Culture
August 20, 2012Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) in conversation with Stefania Lucamante(Catholic University of America). On the occasion of the publication of their new books. Moderator: David Forgacs (New York University). Italy’s...
Heroes, Saints and the Righteous: the Case of Giovanni Palatucci
March 20, 2012Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Memoria, Programs
Welcome: Stefano Albertini (Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò) Natalia Indrimi (Centro Primo Levi) Opening Remarks: Consul General of Italy, Hon. Natalia Quintavalle Speakers: Marco Coslovich (Historian and author of...
Locomotrix: selected poetry and prose of Amelia Rosselli
March 20, 2012Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Programs
Book presentation Locomotrix: selected poetry and prose of Amelia Rosselli (University Chicago Press). This event attests to the growing interest for Amelia Rosselli (Paris 1930- Rome 1996) in the United States. Her life and work are...
Daniele Bedarida Presents the Music of the Synagogue of Livorno
March 10, 2012Congregation Shearith Israel, Programs
Join the Hazan of Livorno Daniele Bedarida and his son, art historian Raffaele Bedarida, for an evening of music and art. Daniele Bedarida will perform traditional music from the synagogue of Livorno which he contributed to recuperate...
Interview with Rabbi Riccardo Shmuel Di Segni CPL: The Jewish Community of Rome endured, negotiated and overcame centuries of direct contact with the Catholic Church. How has this experience affected their perspective on...
On January 30th at 6 pm Centro Primo Levi and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, will present the world premiere of the documentary film The DP Camp of Cinecittà by Marco Bertozzi, based on research by Noa Steimatsky...
Join us at Kehila Kedosha Janina for to Qabbalat Shabbat to honor the memory and celebrate the life of the Jews who were killed during the Fascist and Nazi persecution. During Shabbat service prayers will be offered to the victims and...
Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years 1933-1941
December 20, 2011Center for Jewish History, Memoria, Programs
On the occasion of the New York presentation of QUEST, Journal in Contemporary Jewish Issues published by the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan (CDEC), this special event will present Mario Tedeschini Lalli’s...
Giorno della Memoria 2012. Science and Persecution
December 20, 2011Multiple venues, Memoria, Programs
JANUARY 27 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Consulate General of Italy | Park Avenue at 69th Street REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY The Consul General of Italy, Hon. Natalia Quintavalle is renewing her predecessors’ commitment to preserve the memory of the...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – 5 pm to 8 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimó | 24 West 12th Street Seating is on a first come first served basis | Opening night Film Screening: Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge, 1979, a rare fiction...
Opening night Theatrical Reading of Primo Levi’s Writings on Science Monday, November 7, 2011 – 7 PM | Roundtable Museum of Jewish Heritage | 36 Battery Park Place, NYC Admission: $ 20, $15 MJH, CPL members Box office:...
Riccardo Strano, ENIT, Natalia Indrimi, Centro Primo Levi Presentation of the portal, Jonathan Wajskol (designwajskol) Film screening The Marranos of Ancona, by Daniel Toaff and Giuseppe Santini Sorgente di Vita, RAI (20’, Italian...
The Drowned and the Saved: Two Faces of Persecution in Fascist Italy
May 20, 201192Y, Memoria, Programs
The vicissitudes of Italian and foreign Jews under Fascist rule have been the object of in depth studies but are still often presented as contradictory aspects of the same history. Today, thanks to a broad range of interdisciplinary...
Conversations on Conversion: A Symposium of Penn Fellows Featuring WNYC-Radio’s Brian Lehrer
April 20, 2011Center for Jewish History, Programs
Conversion is an explosive topic in Jewish life. Historically, Jews have alternately welcomed and discouraged converts. Jewishness itself has been variously defined by religion, peoplehood, and ethnicity, with differing implications...
Divinamente NYC Festival at the Museum of Jewish Heritage The Choir of Rome’s Tempio Maggiore
April 20, 2011Museum of Jewish Heritage, Programs
On the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy For the first time in the US, the Choir of the “Tempio Maggiore” conducted by the renowned tenor Claudio Disegni and featuring the hazan of Rome, Alberto Funaro, and...
Italian Jewish Studies: Current trends
February 20, 2011Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies, Programs
Columbia Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies will host a roundtable on current trends in the study of Italian Jewish cultural and social history, co-sponsored by the Primo Levi Center. Convened by Francesca Bregoli of Queens...
Italian Purim at Scola Nova NY. Fate Onore al Bel Purim …
February 20, 2011Congregation Ohev Shalom, Programs
Purim with Rav Umberto Piperno Ardith, Reading of the Megillah, Traditional Italian songs, Chiacchiere and frappe di Haman Find your Italian Purim gear at Torah.it: E-books, Meghillat Ester ready for smartphone, children’s games,...
Italian Jews, Antifascism and Resistance
January 31, 2011Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
Co-presented by the RAI Italian Broadcasting Corporation and the Italian Cultural Institute. A panel of prominent Italian intellectuals and witnesses will recount and discuss the little-known story of Jewish participation in Italian...
NOV 7 | THE MARK OF THE CHEMIST Museum of Jewish Heritage | 36 Battery Park Theatrical reading of Primo Levi’s scientific text. Featuring John Turturro and Joan Acocella. Soundscape by composer and virtuoso Marco Cappelli. Text...
Seminars: Beyond the Racial Laws. Racism in Fascist Italy Reconsidered
November 28, 2010Museum of Jewish Heritage, Memoria, Programs
Giorno della Memoria | Seminars Michele Sarfatti (CDEC, Milan), Annalisa Capristo (Center for American Studies, Rome), Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa) and Ilaria Pavan (University of Pisa). Moderated by Alessandro Cassin (Centro...
Anna del Monte and the Origins of Jewish Emancipation
October 20, 2010Center for Jewish History, Programs
A century before the infamous “Mortara case,” a young Roman Jew, Anna del Monte, the daughter of a well to do family of the Ghetto, is kidnapped from her family home and imprisoned in the Casa dei Catecumeni. The aim of the action is...
Film screening and talk John Davis, University of Connecticut Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble southern Italian town in the first half of the twentieth century—and those who do have...
Roundtable: Culture, Conflict, and Persecution on the Northeastern Border of Italy. Joze Pirjevec (University of Primorska, Slovenia), Annie Cohen-Solal(New York University), Uri Cohen (Columbia University). Moderated by Michael...
Purely Italian. New Documents and Perspectives on Italian Racial Policies
September 20, 2010Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
A Symposium presented by Centro Primo Levi with CDEC, Milan, NYU Skirball Department for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò English-language Holocaust literature has generally portrayed Italy as having saved a...
Did James Joyce call Leopold Bloom the man who had called himself Italo Svevo? Screening: Le Parole di Mio Padre/My Father’s Words (2001), directed by Francesca Comencini and based on Zeno’s Conscience. Post-screening...
An interactive videoconference presented by Centro Primo Levi and the Center for Jewish History and Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Thirteenth Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture The Herbert D. Katz Center...
Centro Primo Levi 4th International Symposium October 25 at 5 pm Primo Levi, The West and the Rest Marc Nichanian (Sabancı University), Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), Uri Cohen (Columbia...
Program series launches Americordo, a research and publishing project on the Italian Jewish in the Americas. Centro Primo Levi and The European Institute at Columbia University, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy and...
Evelina Meghnagi and Ashira Ensemble sings “Di Voce in Voce” (From Voice to Voice) A concert featuring a fascinating mix of languages and music, of melodies and rhythms, of the archaic and the contemporary. From songs in...
SALONIKA 1943 Script by FerdinandoCeriani, Gian Paolo Cavarai, Antonio Ferrari.Musical director EvelinaMeghnagi. Staging in the US directed by Alan Adelson. Starring: Robert Zukerman, Lily Balsen, and GaleetDardashti. The performance...
SALONIKA ’43 Script by Ferdinando Ceriani, Gian Paolo Cavarai, Antonio Ferrari. Musical director Evelina Meghnagi. Staging in the US directed by Alan Adelson. Starring: Robert Zukerman, Lily Balsen, and Galeet Dardashti. The...
Memories of Roman Jews: Beyond Inquisition and Persecution
January 1, 2010Multiple venues, Memoria, Programs
OCTOBER 16th, 1943 “From the window we see… small children; pregnant women, shivering and scared; wives with shawls on their heads, the children were crying. When we went home we saw them (the Germans) taking everybody away at...
Sunday, October 25, 2009 Opening remarks by Prof. Andrew Viterbi I feel both honored and inadequate for the role of opening this symposium since I am neither a literary critic nor a historian. Still I have read practically all of Primo...
An International Symposium on the Occasion pf Primo Levi’s 90th Anniversary Concert & Round Table Sunday, October 25, 2009. Center for Jewish History, CUNY Graduate Center, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. Admission: Free...
When, 150 years ago, Italy became a unified country, the Region of Piemonte was its center and the catalyst of its early development. As the oldest minority in Europe, Italian Jews held a high stake in a process that sanctioned their...
Co-presented by the National Organization of Italian American Women, in collaboration with: La Scuola D’Italia, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and the Westchester Italian Cultural Center. On the occasion of the publication of...
Centuries of Jewish Crossover From Venice to Lecce The program is co-presented by the Consulate General of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute, and Centro Primo Levi. It is made possible through the generous support of the Regione Veneto...
February 9 at 6:00 pm Dante and Primo Levi Join an unexpected literary salon in town where scholar and writer Uri Cohen will take you on a fascinating and unexpected journey. Uri Cohen is an assistant professor at Columbia University...
Traditional reading of the Megillat Esther in the style of the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina, Greece. Service begins at 6:00 pm. Kehila Kedosha Janina, 280 Broome Street (at Allen St.), NYC. More information at: www.kkjsm.org Also in New...
The writings of Giorgio Bassani are recognized internationally for their memorably elusive characters, the many ways in which they defy stereotypes, and their uncanny portrayal of the Italian society between the end of Fascism and the...
Italian Jews, Foreign Jews: Common Destiny and Plurality of Experiences in Fascist Italy
January 27, 2009Memoria, Programs
1:30 pm | Film screening.The Jews from Fossoli Directed by RuggeroGabbai (Italy, 2006, DVD, 50 minutes, Italian with English subtitles) This illuminating documentary exposes the Italian Social Republic’s 1943 deportation of the Jews...
January 26, 6 pm. Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NYC Traces of Memory. Film screening and literary reading The Historic Ghetto of Venice by Regina Resnik. Maria Tucci reads from Primo Levi’s The Truce “Children of the...
Jews, Commerce and Culture
January 20, 2009Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6 pm The Economics of Jewish Life in Modern Europe, Derek Penslar, University of Toronto Professor Penslar discusses modern economic Jewish history and contextualizes its cultural, ideological, and material...
De/portees: An Installation by Jack Sal
January 20, 2009Italian Cultural Institute, Memoria, Programs
Conceived as a multi-projector installation, De/Portees retraces the geography of the Italian internment camps that were used for the detention, imprisonment, and transfer of prisoners to the Nazi concentration camps. In addition to...
Congregation Ramath Orah and Centro Primo Levi are pleased to invite you to Kabbalat Shabbat on January 16, 2009 at 4:45 pm. Our special guest will be Rav David Gianfranco Di Segni, from the Italian Rabbinical College of Rome. Rav Di...
Toscanini: Nel mio cuore troppo di assoluto
January 1, 2009Italian Academy at Columbia University, Programs
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), the most celebrated conductor in history, was admired also for his opposition to Fascism and Nazism. His clashes with Mussolini and Hitler and his trips to Palestine...
The Art and Life of István Farkas (1887-1944) Lecture by Éva Forgács, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena A modernist of the École de Paris, whose elusive landscapes fascinated writers and painters alike, in 1932 Farkas returned to...
Reading of the names on January 27 On January 27 from 9 am to 4 pm we will be reading the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories on Park Avenue at 68th Street in front of the Consulate General of Italy. We...
Mussolini’s camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy
January 1, 2009Museum of Jewish Heritage, Memoria, Programs
ITALIAN JEWS, FOREIGN JEWS: COMMON DESTINY AND PLURALITY OF EXPERIENCES IN FASCIST ITALY 1:30 pm | Screening of The Jews from Fossoli, by Ruggero Gabbai (Italy, 2006, DVD, 50 minutes, Italian with English subtitles). This illuminating...
Of Ghetto and Nation: Gadi Luzzatto Voghera
November 20, 2008Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
December 16 at 6:00 pm Visiting lecturer: Gadi Luzzatto Voghera (University of Venice and Boston University, Padua). From “Jews” to “Israelites”. Jewish emancipation and Italian secularism: models for a modern nation. Were...
Italy at the Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
November 20, 2008Grand Hayat, Washington DC, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Outside the Ashkenazi/Sephardic Divide: Italian Jewish Studies in Italy and Beyond This Round Table focuses on the issues of Jewish identity raised by the Italian Jewish experience, as seen through the academic network of Italian...
Centro Primo Levi with the Italian Cultural Institute and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimó inaugurate the first annual symposium dedicated to the Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi. Sessions continue on September 9 at 7:00 pm at the...
Of Ghetto and Nation: David Ruderman
September 20, 2008Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania). Visiting lecturer. Beyond the dialectic of ghetto vs. integration: towards a new vision of Jewish cultural history in Italy. Over a decade ago two prominent scholars of Italian Jewry, David...
Centro Primo Levi with the Consulate General of Italy and the Consulate General of Israel present a program dedicated to the history of Italians in Israel. May 13 at 5:00 pm Film screening: Chalutzim: Pionieri in Israele A film by...
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Italian Academy at Columbia University Italian Fascist Race Laws and the Manifesto dellaRazza: How Law and Science Can be Racist David Freedberg (Italian Academy), Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU), Lidia Santarelli...
Beginnings: Jews, Christians and the Roman Empire
January 20, 2008Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
A collaborative series of Centro Primo Levi with the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Each year CAJS invites some twenty scholars from around the world to study in depth a central theme...
Sephardic Film Festival Exodus. A RAI production dedicated to the life of Ada Sereni. Based on the true story of Ada Sereni, who became a leader of the Aliyah Bet, helping the underground Jewish Brigade bring survivors to Palestine in...
Blooming Trieste: An Evening Salon on James Joyce and Italo Svevo
May 20, 2007Italian Cultural Institute, Programs
Leopold Bloom is more a Triestine figure than a Dublin one and Ulysses may be about Ireland, but only turbulent and cosmopolitan Trieste could have given Joyce the impetus to start setting it down. Anthony Burgess, The New York Times...
Centro Primo Levi and the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pensylvania invite you to an evening dedicated to the cultures of the Mediterranean lands featuring Charles Manekin (Bar Ilan...
La Istoria de Purim io te Racconto. That Hebrew accent at the Italian courts
March 21, 2007Center for Jewish History, Programs
Delving into a vast and entertaining musical and poetic repertoire and highlighting the exuberant crossovers originating in the multi-ethnic cradle of the Mediterranean, Lucidarium brings to the audiences of today the magical...
Philip Roth remembers Primo Levi. The Grinzane Award in New York
March 20, 2007Primo Levi Forum, Programs
Philip Roth received the first Grinzane Literary Masters Award in recognition of his merit as a writer and for introducing the work of Primo Levi to a wider American audience. The prize, which brings an honorarium of $25,000, is...
An evening of talks, performance, film, and radio nostalgia on the beloved Mayor of New York and his sister Gemma. On the occasion of the publication of Fiorello’s Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck’s Story, the memoir by Gemma...
Jesus: What is he doing here? The Nextbook Festival of Ideas
March 20, 2007Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
What’s He Doing Here? Jesus in Jewish Culture. Centro Primo Levi hosts the Nextbook Festival of Ideas. Jesus was a Jew, but Jews do not accept his divinity. In What’s He Doing Here? Jesus in Jewish Culture, an all-star lineup of...
Hebraic and Islamic Sources of Dante
March 20, 2007Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
Visiting lecturer: Sandra Debenedetti Stow Hebraic and Islamic Sources of Dante Alighieri. Professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow, Bar Ilan University, will discuss the relation between idea and representation central to Dante’s notion of...
Centro Primo Levi jointly with the Consulate General of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo, and the Italian Academy at Columbia University sponsors a series of programs and city events to commemorate...
Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond
October 1, 2006Center for Jewish History, Italian Jewish Studies Seminar, Programs
KABBALAH IN THE AGE OF REASON: ELIJAH BENAMOZEGH Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris THE SEPHARDIC JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF SABATO MORAIS Arthur Kiron, University of Pennsylvania...
The Banality of Good: Rescuers in Italy at the Time of Persecution
September 21, 2006Center for Jewish History, Memoria, Programs
Organized by Centro Primo Levi in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy, Wagner College, the Center for Jewish History and the Italian Cultural Institute. With the participation of the International Raul Wallenberg Foundation...
The Mayor of Rome, Hon. Walter Veltroni presents: The Jewish Community of Rome Between Past and Present
August 21, 2006Center for Jewish History, Programs
Walter Veltroni was born in Rome and began his political career as member of the Italian Young Communist Federation. From 1976 to 1981 he held the post of city counselor of Rome. In 1987, Mr. Veltroni became a member of the Parliament....
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY Jack Lunzer, custodian. Opening remarks by Arthur Kiron, University of Pennsylvania. The Valmadonna Trust Library in London is generally recognized to comprise the most important private collection of early...
Jewish Culture, History, and Libraries in Emilia Romagna
September 21, 2004Center for Jewish History, Programs
The Italian Ghenizah, Mauro Perani, University of Bologna For the past 20 years, under the guidance of late Prof. Joseph Sermoneta, Hebrew University, and then of Prof, Mauro Perani, thousands of Hebrew manuscripts recycled as binding...
A theatrical reading of correspodence between Amedeo Modigliani, his mother and his brother Mené....
The “other Modigliani,” Giuseppe Emanuele (Mene) Modigliani, was one of Italy’s earliest socialist and union leaders to be elected to Parliament. He was the younger brother of the legendary modernist painter, Amedeo Modigliani....
Il Coraggio di vivere. Auschwitz survivor Nedo Fiano Speaks about his memoir
April 21, 2004Center for Jewish History, Memoria, Programs
Nedo Fiano speaks about his memoir “The courage to live” with his son Andrea Fiano, NY correspondent of Milano Finanza. See Review by Marsha Leon, The Forward «My deportation to the Nazi extermination camps marked my entire life. My...
To Scratch an Angel. Israeli composer Ari Frankel Pays Homage to Primo Levi
March 21, 2004Center for Jewish History, Programs
A chamber opera — with libretto and music by Ari Frankel — inspired by the life, writings, and death of Primo Levi [1919-1987]. Frankel does not use any of Levi’s writings; he channels impressions while exploring...
A Shabbat dinner and talk with Dr. Sharon Flatto, The Age of the Ghetto: A Period of Persecution and Prosperity-the Perplexing Paradox, Dr. Flatto is an Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College; she specializes in...
