Conversation on a work in progress with historian Matteo D'Avanzo (fellow at the USHMM) A Reservation is required at rsvp@primolevicenter.org. Indicate the program title. In the years of Nazi persecution, as borders slammed shut across Europe, some Jews began looking for escape where no one expected it: Ethiopia. An independent African empire and home to an ancient Jewish community, Ethiopia suddenly appeared on the maps of desperation. For a brief moment, it seemed to promise what Europe ...

Noam Sienna  (visiting scholar at Rutgers University) and the Yiddish Printmakers Cooperative. A reservation is required at rsvp@primolevicenter.org - Indicate the program title in the subject line. Explore Sephardi printing in the early modern Ottoman Empire through this interactive, hands-on workshop! Using woodblocks, hand-set type, and manual printing presses, we will attempt to replicate one of the printed texts from the press of the Ibn Nahmias family of early 16th century Constantin...

Talk and reading by poet, literary scholar, and translator Jennifer Scappettone on her book, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism, Columbia University Press, October 2025 A reservation is required at rsvp@primolevicenter.org. Indicate the program title. Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance—the poetry of motherless tongu...

Presented by NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, CUNY Calandra Institute, and Centro Primo Levi. Keynote by Andrea Fiano. Conversation with Stefano Albertini, Alessandro Cassin, Anthony Tamburri, and Natalia Indrimi. Twenty-six years ago, the Italian, French, and German governments established the commemoration of January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army, which became known in Italy as Giorno della Memoria. In New York, the Consulate General of Italy began t...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Due to inclement weather, this event will now be held on February 1st. In commemoration of Giorno della Memoria—the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed annually on January 27—Magazzino Italian Art will host a public program organized in collaboration with the Centro Primo Levi and in coordination with the Italian Consulate General in New York, alongside other Italian cultural institutions in the city. The event proposes a dual conversation ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Each January 27, we read the names of 9,700 Jewish men, women, and children deported from Italy and the Italian territories between 1943 and 1945. The ceremony is open to the public and held outdoors, in front of the Consulate General of Italy. Everyone can join and read. Please note: due to inclement weather, the ceremony will be held inside the Consulate General of Italy and not on the avenue. Please send an email to info@primolevice...

A reservation is required at rsvp@primolevicenter.org. Please indicate the program in the subject line. Arrive at the center between 5:15 pm and 5:30 pm. CPL staff will check you in at the main door. Thank you. One of the most iconic and delicious dishes of Palestinian cuisine is the Maqlube. The expression of both abundance and frugality, the Maqlube can be made from scratch or with leftovers enriched by spices and colorful herbs, requires only one pot, cooks slowly, and its beauty relies as...

This program is sold out. If you wish to place your name on a wait list, please send an email to: info@primolevicenter.org and we will let you know if we can accommodate you. Economist Clara Mattei discusses her book Capital Order: How the Economist Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to s...