FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org Sixty Years Fighting Oblivion: The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan New York, NY – January 18, 2015 - The Centro Primo Levi NY, Italian Cultural Institute, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Consulate General…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org NEW YORK, NY - On January 29, 2015, at 6 pm Centro Primo Levi with the John Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY will present a lecture and discussion with Marco Clementi, University of Calabria…
SF Vanni. La grande mela, per i libri, da un po' di tempo a questa parte sembra essere piuttosto una mela avvelenata. Coliseum e Gotham, mitiche mete dei lettori newyorchesi, hanno dovuto alzare bandiera bianca già agli inizi del decennio…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2015 Contacts: Betsy Aldredge / (646) 437-4337 / baldredge@mjhnyc.org Museum Welcomes Primo Levi Center for Special Co-Presentation of Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set You Free) And NY Premiere of Once-Lost Italian Jewish Home Movies…
Gioia Sgarlata UN'OPERAZIONE controcorrente nel quartiere della cultura bohémiene delle avanguardie newyorkesi diventato oggi meta di benestanti agé che qui cercano casa. E dove, un po' per le pressioni del mercato immobiliare un po' per la crisi molti luoghi simbolo…
Steve Sipporin Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra. 2011. By Yaala Levi Zimmerman. 90 min. DVD. In He- brew and Italian, subtitles in English. (Jerusa- lem, Israel: Ruth Diskin, Ltd.) Leo Levi-The Man with the Nagra is a film that…
Mark Swed The 16th/17th century composer Salomone Rossi is the focus of a Chamber Music in Historic Sites performance by Profeti della Quinta. The quintet is sophisticated; the music lovely if not lingering. Even for a city in which architectural…
Alexis Herr Every age needs its heroes, so it seems. And in post-war Italy, a low level official named Giovanni Palatucci seemed to fit the bill. But recent reports challenge Palatucci’s legacy as the “Italian Schindler” and in so doing…
Patricia Cohen. He has been called the Italian Schindler, credited with helping to save 5,000 Jews during the Holocaust. Giovanni Palatucci, a wartime police official, has been honored in Israel, in New York and in Italy, where squares and promenades…
Anita Kantrowitz It’s a foggy fall morning, and standing atop Mount Cardeto on the east coast of central Italy, I can barely make out the deep blue of the Adriatic Sea. As I look out toward the cliff’s edge, what…
