I will set down in order the traditions of my fathers, who were brought on a ship over the Pishon, the first river of Eden, […] They came to Oria; they settled there and prospered through remarkable achievements… The Chronicle of Ahimaaz
Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria we would like to share a speech that Ms. Zevi gave at the Circolo Rosselli in Florence,…
Catherine Collomp, Université Paris VII. Reprinted by permission, Altre Italie After the German army’s invasion of France in June 1940, hundreds of Italian antifascists, most of whom had been refugees in this country for over a decade, were part of…
Stefano Luconi, Transatlantica, 2014 Introduction Migration studies have dismissed the somewhat uncritical and romantic celebration of the heroic saga of the political expatriates as professional revolutionaries who traveled the world to spread the “Idea” and allegedly lived adventurously on the…
Alessandro Cassin In this conversation Judge Guido Calabresi, a long time friend of Centro Primo Levi, shares stories of his family’s flight from Fascist Italy —from Milan to Yale— and the ways his childhood experiences have shaped his personal and…
This blog post was written in response to information gathering resulting from the visit of an international researcher. Here in the New School Archives and Special Collections, we assist researchers from around the world on a weekly and sometimes daily…
I was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Enrico Modigliani and Olga Flaschel. My father was a leading pediatrician in the city and my mother was a volunteer social worker. My school performance in the early years was good…
The Max Ascoli Papers at Boston University (from The Bridge) Max Ascoli (1898-1978) created The Reporter in 1949, a magazine that became a leading voice for liberalism in America for the next 20 years. Special Collections contains the editorial files…
Pioneering microbial geneticist Salvador Edward Luria was born Salvatore Luria in Turin, Italy, on August 13, 1912, the second son of David Luria, an accountant, and his wife Esther. His school years coincided with the rise of fascism in Italy,…
How would you describe the current state of research on the Racial Laws in Italy? 2010 There is today an extensive body of literature analyzing the development of the Italian historiography on the Fascist persecution of the Jews. A good…
Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence. Gavin Jacobson, December 15, 2015 In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape the Nazis. A keen mountaineer…
