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New York, May 28, 2019 - Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute inaugurate Primo Levi’s Centenary with two programs highlighting Levi’s relevance today and his ability to continue to speak to people of different backgrounds and generations. On…
Simone Somekh for Tablet, May 2018 Whether you’re looking for the latest Israeli best-selling novel, the five books of the Torah, or even the translation of the Babylonian Talmud, in Italy, there is one man behind all of these books.…
Simone Somekh for Tablet, April 2018 When Ba’ghetto, the oldest Jewish restaurant in Rome, announced the opening of its new location in Milan, someone must have made a quick phone call to inform the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that the…
Money Must Stay in the Family Translated by Alastair McEwen The plot of Money Must Stay in the Family, unfolds around the family matriarch’s last will and traces the story of an upper class Jewish family from Turin, the fictional Ottolenghis. The multigenerational saga begins…
Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers Translated by Jill Goldsmith Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s book is an insightful biographical study of a key figure among Ethiopian Jews of the early 20th Century. Taamrat Emmanuel was profoundly fascinated by European…
Vanadium and the Grey Doctor Muller Marco Belpoliti. Introduction by Simona Forti. Featuring Primo Levi’s story Vanadium from The Periodic Table One of Italy’s finest literary critics, Marco Belpoliti is the curator of the Italian edition of Primo Levi’s complete works.…
Readings, images and open questions between history and literature. By Alessandro Cassin.
An audio-visual journey through the Venetian Hebrew books collections of the Library of Congress and the Renato Maestro Library in Venice.
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 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,…