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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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News March 25, 2013

Centaur Award 2013

John Elkann presents the Centaur Award to John Turturro On May 20th, 2013, Centro Primo Levi hosted its first benefit Gala. On this occasion John Elkann presented the Centaur Award…

Essays March 24, 2013

Ferramonti, 70 Years After

International Conference Remembers the Concentration Camp of Ferramonti, 70 Years After the Liberation April 24 | 10 am to 6 pm, Centro Ebraico Il Pitigliani | Via Arco de’ Tolomei,…

Essays March 17, 2013

Hidden in Plain Sight

As it often happened in the past,  among this year’s initiatives to commemorate Yom Hashoah, there is little mention of the persecution carried out against Jews in Italy. The long…

Essays March 17, 2013

From Sarajevo to Parma

From Sarajevo to Parma, a Jewish family during the Second World War In the days that preceded Christmas 1941, before the eyes of the stunned inhabitants of the community of…

Books March 31, 2012

Threads and Traces

Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University of California Press, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a…

Books March 30, 2012

Mussolini and Fascism

John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber (Institute for Historical Review), America’s Changing View of Mussolini and Italian Fascism America’s image…