Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
The reception of the TV miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in Italy. As the Holocaust becomes increasingly present in the political discourse in the US, Europe and Israel, this reflection by…
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A Memory of Le Murate
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Remembering Nedo Fiano z’l
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Memorial Stones
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For a Memory Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
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Where are sociologists when we need them?
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CPL Editions Books Will No Longer be Available on Amazon
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Sartre, The Jew and the Other
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Laura Orvieto’s Stories of the World
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The Exact Number of Stars
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Images of Rebirth and the DP Camps in Southern Puglia
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Defoe as a Possible Model
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting interpretative questions. While critics have often pointed to similarities with the narrative structure of…
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 of Primo Levi’s memoir If This Is a Man. The question…
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A Memory of Le Murate
I was released from Le Murate three days ago. In my section, there was an inmate from Prato – the nicest man, who had been “in” for the past fourteen…
Remembering Nedo Fiano z’l
On this Giorno Della Memoria, Centro Primo Levi remembers the life of Nedo Fiano (Florence, April 22, 1925 – Milan, December 19, 2020), the father of our friend and former…
Memorial Stones
The complex and often elusive workings of memory (including the memory and memorialization of the Shoah) have been often explored also by literature, from the immediate post-war period to the…
For a Memory Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
This essay appears an preface to the English edition of Valentina Pisanty’s book The Guardians of Memory (CPL Editions, 2021). Valentina Pisanty’s The Guardians of Memory opens with a paradox…
Where are sociologists when we need them?
Alessandro Cassin We are facing a new world: in recent months, the pandemic, the shortcomings of our political system, the unrestrained use of social media, the crisis of traditional journalism,…
CPL Editions Books Will No Longer be Available on Amazon
Dear Friends, We are grateful to all of you who have been supporting us by purchasing CPL Editions book. While for some years we offered the option of purchasing them…