Ariosto and Tasso
Curiosities of Literature It surprises one to find among the literary Italians the merits of Ariosto most keenly disputed: slaves to classical authority, they bend down to the majestic regularity…
Books
Anthology
A Primo Levi Anthology Collected from various sources on the occasion of the presentation of Primo Levi’s Complete Works at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Quaestio…
Primo Levi, Mountain Rebel
Levi’s experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans’ capacity for extreme violence. A review of Sergio Luzzatto’s Primo Levi’s Resistance and Collaborators in Occupied Italy….
We Were Outsiders in Every Possible Way
In this conversation Judge Guido Calabresi, a long time friend of Centro Primo Levi, shares stories of his family’s flight from Fascist Italy —from Milan to Yale— and the ways…
Venice, the Jews and Europe
On September 19 at 6:00 pm the English edition of the 500th Anniversary exhibition on the Venice ghetto with essays by some of the most prominent scholars in the field,…
The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe
Book: The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression. Combining Viewpoints on a Controversial Story. Editors: Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016…
A Primo Levi Atlas
A Primo Levi Atlas: Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo, by Marco Belpoliti Marco Belpoliti has crowned his decades long critical engagement with Levi with an ambitious new book, Primo…
From Musa Dagh to Masada
How Franz Werfel’s novel about the Armenian Genocide inspired the Warsaw Ghetto fighters and the Zionist resistance A crowded hotel lobby in Breslau in late 1932. People waited there to…
A Third Model of Jewish Enlightenment?
Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014 Despite its status as the second-largest Jewish community in western Europe in the eighteenth…
The Secret of the Last Jews of Rhodes
A Daunting Discovery: The largest Carabinieri Archives Outside of Italy and a List of 1661 Names Shed Light on a Greek island’s Darkest Moments How was it possible? A locked door,…