An Evening for Bianca
On January 25th, 2016, was a special evening at the Italian Cultural Institute. The occasion was ...
Essays
Writing for Justice: Rethinking the Saga of Edgardo Mortara
“A masterful examination of what must be one of the most intriguing figures of mid-nineteenth-century...
Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival
In a story from 1976 entitled “Decoding” (Decodificazione), Primo Levi investigates the appearance of swastikas and...
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah: The Catholic Press in Italy, 1945-1947 Relatively...
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism seeks to cover the history of the “anti-fascist paradigm”, namely anti-Fascism held...
German and Italian cultures of memory
Christoph Cornelißen, © Eutopia Magazine If discussion turns today to cultures of memory, these are mostly thought...
From the Front of the Great War
Letters from Italian Jewish soldiers in World War I – who would die in the Holocaust...
Laura Fermi, Ordinary Genius
“Put your grandmother Laura first, ahead of Enrico,” I can still hear my mother urging me....
Quaestio De Centauris
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s...
The Rebuilder
By reimagining landmark New York buildings like the Astor Library, which became the Public Theater, Giorgio...