Guardians of Memory?
CPL Editions book launch: THE GUARDIANS OF MEMORY AND THE RETURN OF THE XENOPHOBIC RIGHT by Valentina Pisanty with a preface by Michael Rothberg Presentation on February 16 at 2:00 pm (EST) Register for the event:...
Gangster state: Laying bare Mussolini’s murderous regime
One spring day in 1937, two Italian men were found murdered on a country road in Normandy; their carotid arteries had been severed. Carlo Rosselli and his younger brother Nello had fled to France from Fascist Italy....
Giorno della Memoria 2021
For immediate release Giorno della Memoria 2021: Looking back at Twenty Years of Activity January 27, 2021 will mark twenty years since the first commemoration of Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Italy. In New York,...
Los Corassones Avlan
Conversations on Jewish Life on the Island of Rhodes. A pop-up installation to discover, discuss and imagine. Press contact: loscorassones.press@primolevicenter.org New York, NY – September 24, 2019 – A fully immersive...
Jewish Book Council: Book Review of Mixed Messages
The Jewish community of Italy is over two thousand years old, and yet, when Eleanor Foa’s father tried to explain their Italian Jewish heritage, it was always a struggle....
The Oral History Center: Los Corassones Avlan
We all have stories in our archives. We know it is best to bring the stories out, for people to hear and see them. But how? One idea: Involve the narrator, maybe she or he will have an idea. That...
I.Italy: The Life of a “Foreign Italian”
Leo Yeni, an Artist’s Paper Life, presented by NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi showcases the life and struggles of a man through his art. To some, the show, curated by Cynthia Madansky, is an...
Centro Primo Levi Editions to launch Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994 at The Museum of Modern Art
Contact: Rebecca Samonà: rebecca.samona@primolevicenter.org New York, NY, January 27th, 2020 – Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994, with a...
Haaretz: From Rhodes With Love: Memories of Jewish Life on the Greek Island Celebrated in NY Show
In unconventional exhibit, the public is encouraged not only to touch the displays but to converse with Stella Levi, a 96-year-old Jewish native of the island that was occupied by the Nazis in World War II. By Danielle Ziri for...
The New York Times: She Grew Up on a Remote Italian Island. Then Came the Holocaust.
Recalling the once-vibrant Jewish life in prewar Rhodes, an island in the Mediterranean. By Michael Frank for The New York Times. Four years ago, while researching the war years in Italy, I was introduced to Stella Levi, now 96, probably...
Woman Around Town: Eleanor Foà’s Poignant Memoir About Her Italian Jewish Family
By Charlene Giannetti for Woman Around Town “To a child growing up in WASP America, with parents who had funny accents, feeling good about being an Italian Jew was a great gift. But like many gifts of childhood, I took...
