Not all of them where materially inert, for that was not granted to them. On the contrary, they were, or had to be, quite active; but inert they undoubtedly were in the innermost selves, inclined to disinterested speculation … the events attributed to them …shared a static quality, an attitude of dignified abstention, of deliberate (or accepted) relegation to the margins of the great river of life. Primo Levi, Argon
New books network podcast episode hosted by Ari Barbalat, featuring CPL Editions author Yehudah Cohn
New books network podcast episode hosted by Ari Barbalat, featuring CPL Editions author Emanuela Trevisan
The Trunk
By Alberto Vigevani
Translated by Will Schutt
In a Corner of Carnaro: We Were Too Few To Make History
By Caty Lager Bottone
The Renegade By Ariel Toaff Translated by Cristina Popple On a morning in 1840, a young boy discovers, under an olive tree on the outskirts of Nablus, the body of David Ajash, an Italian rabbi and kabbalist of Algerian origin.…
Internee Number 6 By Maria Eisenstein, Curated by Carlo Spartaco Capogreco Afterword by Eric Feingersh Steele Translated by Will Schutt Published when the war was still raging north of Rome, Internee Number 6 is the first memoir of the fascist…
Magazzino.Art
A program spotlighting the resilient legacy of the Mazzetti sisters, for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By Maria Galeotti
Sublimò il massacro della famiglia nel cinema e nella narrativa
By Jane L. Levere
Corrado Cagli, an artist of the 1920s through the 1970s, is still defying categories like “Italian artist” or “gay artist,” as a show at the Center for Italian Modern Art reveals.
By Gianna Pontecorboli
“Mine Is the Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets of Immanuel of Rome” was presented by the Primo Levi Center of NY at NYPL