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CPL Editions' Book-talk. Two Childhood Memoirs

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SUPPORTERS

Viterbi Family
Lily Safra z'l
Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet
Sarah Wolf Hallac
Peter S. and Mary Kalikow
Claude Ghez
Alan and Caryn Viterbi
Andrew and Joan Milano
Lice Ghilardi
Bruce Slovin and Francesca Slovin z'l
Georgette Bennett and Leonard Polonsky

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi
Italy at the Hebrew University

CONTACT

Centro Primo Levi
15 W 16 Street, New York, NY 10011
917-606-8202
in**@*************er.org

Reminder to join us tomorrow for our book club dis

Reminder to join us tomorrow for our book club discussion of The Trunk 📚️⁠
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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 link. Copies of The Trunk can be purchased at Sullaluna or ordered from CPL Editions.⁠
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Sullaluna, is an independent bookshop, Italian bistro, and cultural space in the West Village featuring classic drinks and a menu of mainly vegetarian and vegan dishes.⁠
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Alberto Vigevani (1918-1999) was a prominent man of letters in 20th-century Italy, a fiction writer and poet as well as a publisher and antiquarian book dealer. Highly autobiographical like much of his work, The Trunk is Vigevani’s first book to be translated into English. The book is a lyrical and poignant portrait of a Jewish family in the second decade of the Fascist dictatorship. When the novel opens, the narrator’s memories are sparked by a wedding gift from his wife’s aunt and uncle: a marvelous trunk. The book becomes an attempt to understand the unfathomable and to write a history that gives the dead a kind of immortality their murderers sought to deny them.⁠
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The discussion will be led by Mike Levine, an independent editor and former acquisitions editor at Northwestern University Press. Since 2000, he has taught literature seminars in several continuing education programs, most recently at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.

You are cordially invited to a complimentary four-

You are cordially invited to a complimentary four-day tribute film festival dedicated to Nurith Aviv.

Nurith Aviv’s works investigate language and move lyrically through the landscapes, collective myths, and intimate narratives that shape humans’ ways of being together. Moving from her personal experience of growing up among many languages, she reflects on the mystery of how sound and meaning come together, travel through different alphabets, and shape the human psyche.

This tribute is the fruit of a collaboration between the Fordham University Center for Jewish Studies, the Primo Levi Center, and the Fordham Center on Religious and Culture, is the first of its kind in New York City. It will gather long-time Aviv fans, newcomers to her work, and lovers of language from all backgrounds to celebrate through images and words this exceptional director as she turns 80.

Nurith Aviv, the first woman to be a director of photography in France, she has shot 100 fiction and documentary films with directors such as Agnès Varda, Amos Gitai, René Allio, and Jacques Doillon.

She has received important prizes, including the Edouard Glissant Prize (2009) and the Grand Prix de l’Académie française (2019). Her works have been shown in multiple retrospectives in Paris, including a week-long one last month.Her works have been shown in multiple retrospectives in Paris, including a week-long one last month.

Event is free, but donations are welcome. To RSVP and/or donate, please refer to https://primolevicenter.org/nurithaviv/

Our book “Internee Number 6” by Maria Eisenste

Our book “Internee Number 6” by Maria Eisenstein was just reviewed by @jdforward. Read the full review at the link in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening of Cantigas and Romansas!

Read Sandro Gerbi's essay "From the Alter to Dust:

Read Sandro Gerbi's essay "From the Alter to Dust: Giuliano Gerbi and the Voice of Italian Sport" on our Printed Matter magazine.
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Link in bio.

Sarai E Hagar Read in the link in our bio.

Sarai E Hagar

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Gil Anidjar, author of On the Sovereignty of Mothe

Gil Anidjar, author of On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal, Columbia University Press, 2024, will join us at the Bookhouse to talk about the biblical story of Hagar and Sarah.⁠
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Monday, March 31, 7:00 – 8:30 PM⁠
Bookhouse, Sixth Floor, 15 W 16th St.⁠
rsvp@primolevicenter.org

For our Printed Matter magazine, @yuvaljonas has r

For our Printed Matter magazine, @yuvaljonas has reviewed Edith Bruck’s first collection of short stories, This Darkness Will Never End, now translated into English by Jeanne Bonner and published by Paul Dry Books.

Read the review at the link in our bio.

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