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
Primo Levi, Argon
Elsa Morante’s La Storia
Readings, images and open questions between history and literature. By Alessandro Cassin.
Making Hebrew Books in Venice
An audio-visual journey through the Venetian Hebrew books collections of the Library of Congress and the Renato Maestro Library in Venice.
Tablet Magazine: Did Gino Bartali Actually Save Jews? An Investigation.
As the Tour de France wraps up this week, a historical debate still rages over who deserves credit for the production of identity cards for Jews hidden in Florence Michele Sarfatti, Tablet Magazine An exhibition at the Italian American Museum…
The Jewish Museum of Rome in New York
The Arch of Titus and the Jewish Museum of Rome in New York New York, NY - August 3, 2017 - On September 14th the exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back and the Rome Lab,…
Tablet Magazine: A Holocaust Story form the White Pages
An ‘archaeologist of bureaucracy’ traces the ghostly lives of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II. By Michael Frank In the fall of 2011 I received a letter from my friend Letizia Gualandi, a professor of archaeology at…
Centro Primo Levi NY at the Turin Book Fair
On May 17-22, Centro Primo Levi New York will participate in the Turin Book Fair (Pavilion n. 3 - Stand R 67 ) jointly with Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi and Centre Primo Levi, Paris. Through books and the…
Boston Review of Books: Finding Ourselves in the Venetian Ghetto
Michael Frank. “We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.” This is the Talmud quoting Shmuel ben Nachmani on dreams, but the observation speaks fittingly—and pointedly—to last summer’s commemoration of the establishment of the…
The Menorah: Worship, History and Legend
For the First Time the Vatican Museum Collaborates with a Jewish Museum. The Menorah: Worship, History and Legend to Open in Rome in May. Braccio di Carlo Magno (Vatican Museums), Piazza San Pietro, Rome and the Jewish Museum of Rome (Great Synagogue),…
