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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

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Videos April 1, 2013

Rabbi Dario Disegni

“Rabbi Dario Disegni, a 20th-Century Story”, produced by  the Archivio Terracini of Turin. Rabbi Disegni was the spiritual guide of the Jewish Community of Turin from 1935 to 1959. Set…

Videos April 1, 2013

Vizio di Forma

Vizio di forma is the second collection of fantastic-technological and fantastic-biological stories by Primo Levi. As opposed to Storie Naturali, which was published five years before under a pseudonym, this…

Videos April 1, 2013

Primo Levi on Science Fiction

Reflecting upon the causes and the implications of this “ immense biological and social experience,” as he defines it, Levi, the story teller, ponders on the issue of segregation in…

Videos April 1, 2013

Fascist Italy and the Jews

Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto, the Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Publications discusses the topic of: “Fascist Italy and the Jews: myth versus reality”. This is the first part of this talk, for…

Videos April 1, 2013

Italy’s Fascist Camps

Carlo Spartaco Capogreco (The Duce’s Camps), Doris Schechter, hidden as a child in Italy, Alessandro Cassin. This panel will examine the unique situations of Jews in Italy during the Holocaust….

Videos April 1, 2013

Giorno della Memoria 20100

On January 27 Centro Primo Levi, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institutions in New York commemorate the victims of the Shoah by reading the names of the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Giorno della Memoria 2010

On January 27 Centro Primo Levi, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institutions in New York commemorate the victims of the Shoah by reading the names of the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Israel at 60

Manuela Consonni Remembers Enzo Sereni On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, Hebrew University’s Italian scholar Manuela Consonni talks about Enzo Sereni,…