La storia popolare, ed anche la storia quale viene tradizionalmente insegnata nelle scuole, risente di questa tendenza manichea che rifugge dalle mezze tinte e dalle complessità.
New York Lectures and Interviews Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani’s New York Lectures and Interviews is pubblished on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth by CPL Editions in collaboration with Italian Cultural Institute and the support of Fondazione Giorgio Bassani. The lectures and…
New York, NY, April 25, 2016 - On Friday, May 6th, 2016 at 12 noon at 690 Park Avenue, the Consulate General of Italy and Centro Primo Levi NY will present a talk by Dario Disegni, President of the Italian…
Author Primo Levi shared his vision for a more just and human world in fourteen books, memoirs and essays that have been published together in three volumes in English titled The Complete Works of Primo Levi. To celebrate his universal…
An English language portal on the Italian Jewish Press New York, NY, April 17, 2016 - Centro Primo Levi New York with the support of the Cahnman Foundation announces its partnership with the Scuola superiore Normale di Pisa for one…
Gather What You Can and Flee -Jewish Intellectual Emigration form Fascist Italy Annalisa Capristo The Jewish emigration provoked by fascist persecution was a significant phenomenon in the history of 20th century’s Italy. It resulted in, among other things, a “brain…
Return to Erfurt – Story of a Shattered Childhood: 1935-1945 Olga Tarcali The narrative follows the family’s flight from Germany to Brussels, through the grim French camps in Gurs and Saint–Cyprien, to the Cote D’Azur. After the capture of their…
Skirmishes on Lake Ladoga – From Venice to Rome escaping the Racial Laws Roberto Bassi “Every morning in the kitchen I used to read – and comment upon – war bulletins for my grandmother. When everything was quiet, it said…
A Silver Martian – Normality and Segregation in Primo Levi’s Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge Paola Mieli In Mieli’s interpretation, through surreal inventions, Levi pointed to a disquieting continuity between past aberrations and present normality, showing beyond any doubt how…
I am Counting on You, on Everyone… – Eight Letters from Fossoli, 1944. Gemma Vitale Servadio This book presents the eight letters written by Gemma Servadio from Fossoli that have come down to us, curated by her granddaughter Mirella Bedarida…
Primo Levi, The Friend – Limmud for Primo Levi Bianca Guidetti Serra Primo Levi, The Friend is a brief text in the form of a limmud. In Jewish tradition, a limmud is a teaching that serves as a memorial to…
