Cinema as Archive
The memory Gitai is trying to archive is that of the foundation and striving of a young country: contradictions, aspirations,…
From Fiume to Rio: Interview with Nora Tausz Ronai
In every family people spoke at least two languages, whether Hungarian, Italian, Serb, Croatian or German. Besides, of course, fiumano.…
From the Levant to the Tropics
It was from here, from the chaotic, sunny and tropical city of Rio de Janeiro, that most of the sources…
What Exactly Is a Concentration Camp?
L’internata numero 6/Internee n. 6 – The earliest known diary of daily life in a fascist concentration camp. In Fifty…
Los Corassones Avlan
Conversations on Jewish Life on the Island of Rhodes. A pop-up installation to discover, discuss and imagine. New York, NY –…
Primo Levi: A Multilanguage Reading
https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/primo-levi-at-100-a-multilanguage-reading/ The Italian Cultural Institute, Centro Primo Levi and the New York Public Library presented a day-long multi language reading…
Periodic Words: Stranger
In the Preface to If This Is A Man, Levi warns the reader about some possible consequences of organized political…
The Language that Lived Twice
The almost daunting task of tracing the history of the Hebrew language, and that of the literature and of the…
Letter to a Friend in Gaza
Amos Gitai’s stage version of Letter to a Friend In Gaza, which had its World Premiere at Spoleto Festival USA…
Primo Levi at 100
Primo Levi’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated around the world through lectures, book presentations, staged readings, and academic seminars.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies Honors Michele Sarfatti
2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws introduced in Fascist Italy by the dictator Benito Mussolini. As often…
Corrado Cagli’s Drawings in the Collection of the NYPL
In 1948, the New York City Ballet presented The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, a Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’…
