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Books, Essays 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…

News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

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Katja

It is a first hand testimony, in all its unique flavor and idiosyncratic detail, tracing the ark of a life that started in war torn Italy, continuing with an American…

Videos April 1, 2013

The Rosselli Case

Among the most courageous figures of Italian antifascism, Carlo and Nello Rosselli co-founded Giustizia e Libertà. Carlo was among the first to grasp the importance of the Spanish Civil War…

Videos April 1, 2013

J-Italy

J-ITALY, conceived by Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with ENIT (The Italian National Tourism Board) and designed by Jonathan Wajskol, is a newly created portal that provides a dynamic guide to…

Videos April 1, 2013

Il Coro del Tempio Maggiore

On March 17th, 1861 Vittorio Emanuele II was declared King of Italy, uniting seven states under the Savoy crown. It was not until September 20th, 1870, when the Piemontese troops…

Books March 31, 2013

A Civil War

Claudio Pavone, Peter Levy (Translator), A Civil War, Verso, 2013 ‘Pavone’s study of the struggle between the Resistance and the Fascist Republican regime, A Civil War, has provided the broad…

Books March 31, 2013

Sarajevo, 1941-1945

        Emily Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe, Cornell University Press, 2011 On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany’s 16th Motorized Infantry…