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JOIN US: How the First Fascist Dictatorship Took S

JOIN US: How the First Fascist Dictatorship Took Shape 📅⁠
⁠Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street, NY 10011⁠
September 23rd, at 6:00 pm⁠
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On the occasion of the publication of⁠
Mauro Canali, The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini, The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime (2024, Palgrave Macmillan)⁠
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The author in conversation with⁠
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU⁠
Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University⁠
In ENGLISH⁠
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This panel will discuss the Fascist murder of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, on the occasion of the publication in English of historian Mauro Canali’s award-winning study about the crime, its coverup, and the circumstances that led to the declaration of the first Fascist dictatorship.⁠
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This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a wealth of previously unavailable judicial and archival material, it sheds light on how fascism exercised power through violence and corruption from the very beginning. The book reveals the motives that led Mussolini to order the kidnapping and murder of Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, a turning point in Mussolini’s grasp of total power in Italy. Canali further explores the corrupt dealings between the Mussolini family and the American Sinclair Oil Company that Matteotti had intended to denounce in the Italian parliament the day after his death.⁠
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More info at the link in bio

*BOOK LAUNCH* SEPTEMBER 12th at 6:30 pm at the New

*BOOK LAUNCH* SEPTEMBER 12th at 6:30 pm at the New York Public Library 455 Fifth Avenue⁠
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Ed Simon, Devil’s Contract. The History of the Faustian Bargain, (Melville House Publishing, 2024). With Ed Simon in conversation with Mark Lilla.⁠
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“Marlowe staged Dr. Faustus at the very beginning of what is increasingly being called the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which humanity was finally able to impose its will upon the earth. There are costs to any such contract, as the wisdom of the legend has it, so that it’s worth considering after five centuries of human domination of the planet that we might now be facing our own collective appointment at Deptford. We seem to finally be facing the final act, the apocalyptic tenor of our times, from climate change to nuclear brinkmanship making the continued survival of humanity an open question, our sad predicament the result of hubris, and greed, and vainglory. It may be appropriate to rechristen this age the Faustocene. Because whether or not the Devil is real, his effects in the world are.”⁠
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A fascinating and accessible narrative of the Faustian bargain throughout the ages, Devil’s Contract juxtaposes humanity’s choices with the history of the Devil and suggests how we arrived where we are today. ⁠
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From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain — the exchange of one’s soul in return for untold riches and power — has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations.⁠
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Register at the link in bio!

JOIN US for our latest *BOOK LAUNCH* ⁠on Septemb

JOIN US for our latest *BOOK LAUNCH* ⁠on September 18th at 6:30 pm⁠
⁠Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street, NY 10011⁠
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The Renegade by Arial Toaff, CPL Editions, 2024 translated by Cristina Popple⁠
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Historian Ariel Toaff’s debut novel, first published in Italian by Neri Pozza in 2021, is now available in English. A refreshing, complex take on the historical novel, the narrative tracks the life and death of David Ajash, an Italian rabbi and kabbalist of Algerian origin.⁠
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In 1840, a young boy makes a chilling discovery – Ajash’s lifeless body under an olive tree. The mysterious circumstances of the rabbi’s death raise haunting questions – was it suicide or homicide? Prepare to be enthralled as this gripping literary debut unravels the story in reverse, starting from this gripping scene.⁠
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Historian Ariel Toaff’s debut novel, first published in Italian by Neri Pozza in 2021, is now available in English. A refreshing, complex take on the historical novel, the narrative tracks the life and death of David Ajash, an Italian rabbi and kabbalist of Algerian origin.⁠
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In 1840, a young boy made a chilling discovery – Ajash’s lifeless body under an olive tree. The mysterious circumstances of the rabbi’s death raise haunting questions – was it suicide or homicide? Prepare to be enthralled as this gripping literary debut unravels the story in reverse, starting from this gripping scene.⁠
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More than a fictionalized biography, The Renegade seamlessly merges historical questions and hypotheses into the fabric of a work of literary fiction. It vividly portrays the Jewish Nation of Livorno in vivid brushstrokes, bringing to life the staggering vitality of its heyday: Hebrew printing, philosophical debates, and sea trade, alongside the food, scents, brothels, intrigue, and shifting alliances that accompany a golden age. It is also a meditation on acceptance and rejection and of painfully unsolved conflicts between a father and a son.⁠
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*BOOK LAUNCH* SEPTEMBER 12th at 6:30 pm at 455 Fif

*BOOK LAUNCH* SEPTEMBER 12th at 6:30 pm at 455 Fifth Avenue⁠
⁠
Ed Simon, Devil’s Contract. The History of the Faustian Bargain, (Melville House Publishing, 2024). With Ed Simon in conversation with Mark Lilla.⁠
⁠
“Marlowe staged Dr. Faustus at the very beginning of what is increasingly being called the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which humanity was finally able to impose its will upon the earth. There are costs to any such contract, as the wisdom of the legend has it, so that it’s worth considering after five centuries of human domination of the planet that we might now be facing our own collective appointment at Deptford. We seem to finally be facing the final act, the apocalyptic tenor of our times, from climate change to nuclear brinkmanship making the continued survival of humanity an open question, our sad predicament the result of hubris, and greed, and vainglory. It may be appropriate to rechristen this age the Faustocene. Because whether or not the Devil is real, his effects in the world are.”⁠
⁠
A fascinating and accessible narrative of the Faustian bargain throughout the ages, Devil’s Contract juxtaposes humanity’s choices with the history of the Devil and suggests how we arrived where we are today. ⁠
⁠
From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain — the exchange of one’s soul in return for untold riches and power — has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations.⁠
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Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from biblical themes to bluesman Robert Johnson, and illustrates how the instinct for sacrificing our principles in exchange for power models all kinds of social ills, from colonialism to nuclear warfare, and even social media, climate change, and AI. In doing so, Simon conveys just how much the Faustian bargain shows us about power and evil … and about ourselves.⁠
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REGISTER at the link in bio⁠
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To all our friends in São Paulo, Brasil: please j

To all our friends in São Paulo, Brasil: please join us on August 12 at 6 pm at the 27º Festival de Cinema Judaico, Clube Hebraica for a special screening of Rebecca Samonà's film "L'Isola delle Rose: La Tragedia di un Paradiso" (2009).⁠
During this week of August, 80 years ago, over 1,800 men, women and children of the historical Jewish community of Rhodes arrived in Auschwitz having survived the longest journey from Asia Minor to Poland. They were, for the most part, murdered upon arrival.⁠
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“The Island of Roses” is the first film ever made on the subject and arguably the most intimate and insightful. The director, Rebecca Samonà, captured with rare intensity and a delicate touch, historical complexities and the personal recollections of her mother, Erminia Sidis Licitri, a child at the time, and few family friends who survived the camp: Stella Levi, Aaron Franco, Maty Levy, Lea Gattegno, and Becky Hazan.⁠
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Samonà's clear outlook on history and the human condition allows her to anchor an impressive variety of sources onto a simple narrative in which she ties historical documents to poetry not to seduce the viewer but to open true spaces of reflection.⁠
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The treasures contained in this film appear all the more meaningful 15 years after its debut.⁠

THE FAMILY OF PIAZZA STAMIRA 📚️⁠ ⁠ Marco

THE FAMILY OF PIAZZA STAMIRA 📚️⁠
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Marco Cavallerin’s La famiglia di piazza Stamira (Affinità Elettive, Ancona, 2023. In Italian), a title that refers to the family’s ancestral home in Ancona, is a captivating read that packs a wealth of information, photographs, documents, letters, and diary entries, tracking the lives of the Sacerdotis a Jewish family from Ancona, from the early decades of the XX century to the present. Neither genealogy, chronicle, or historical account, the book attests to Cavallarin belief in the value of unfiltered first-person accounts. ⁠
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Unlike a historian, the author relies principally on interviews or written testimony by the different family members, without the pretense of “objectivity.” What emerges is a fascinating, highly personal, and intimate group portrait of several generations of a family that spreads out of Ancona to Rome, Ferrara, Milano, Lago Maggiore, Ashkelon, New York, and beyond, against the background of the Fascist racial laws, persecution, emigration by aspiration or necessity. We learn about each family member, their professional successes and travails, love, marriage, and ambitions, but above all, we glimpse into the tonality of their individual lives. ⁠
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Read the full article at our link in bio...

In its multidirectional work, Centro Primo Levi fi

In its multidirectional work, Centro Primo Levi finds continuous inspiration and guidance in the writings of scholars, artists, and thinkers from our times, and from the past. In facing the complexity of the present moment, we have been re-reading the luminous work of the art critic, essays, screenwriter, novelist, and painter John Berger (1926-2017). In 1972, his book Ways of Seeing and the homonymous TV series — an instant classic— inaugurated the field of cultural studies providing intellectual grounding for politically engaged artists and scholars. ⁠
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His collection of essays, The Sense of Sight (Pantheon Books, 1985), is particularly relevant today as it shows how to pose questions to the visual world that allow us to respond, through insight and empathy, to the challenges ahead. ⁠
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The essays’ topics range from the concept of self-portrait and the unsaid to the art of storytelling, musings on Manhattan and the city of Sodom, and the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We are transported from the individual experiences of love and of loss, to some of the major political events of our time.⁠
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In The Sense of Sight, Berger breaks away from the perimeter of art history and encourages the reader toward a universalist view. Reading his reflections on art is, among other things, an invitation to share the author’s exceptional capacity for moral engagement.⁠
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Read the full article at our link in bio⁠
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"I think that when writing an essay we are limited

"I think that when writing an essay we are limited by written documentation. Historical research can provide background on Jewish life in a multi-ethnic city with a singular history like Livorno but not much on this specific cabalist rabbi. The novel goes beyond these limits and tries to fill the gaps in the documentation, addressing in the realm of the imagination the contradictions, perplexities, doubts, and the inner world of this Rabbi. In this sense, we can perhaps approach an understanding of this individual’s probable, or at least possible, reality," says Ariel Toaff about his debut novel, The Renegade, now available on our website at the link in bio.⁠
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More than a fictionalized biography, The Renegade seamlessly merges historical questions and hypotheses into the fabric of a work of literary fiction. All of this, while portraying in vivid brushstrokes, the Jewish Nation of Livorno in the staggering vitality of its hay day: Hebrew printing, philosophical debates, sea-trade, as well as foods, smells, brothels, and shifting alliances.⁠
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Ph. A digital reproduction of the old synagogue of Livorno

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