Fantasticavo di scrivere la saga di un atomo di carbonio, per far capire ai popoli la poesia solenne, nota solo ai chimici, della fotosintesi clorofilliana: ed in fatto l'ho poi scritta, ma molti anni più tardi, ed è la storia con cui questo libro si conclude.
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…
Elin Shoen Brockman. When Natalia Indrimi talks about “cultural translation” she means it in the broadest sense imaginable. The Centro Primo Levi, of which she is executive director and one of the founders, is now in its 10th year of…
Suzanne Ruta, The Forward The first time I saw Wendy Gittler, she was carrying her husband, Henry Tylbor, in his wheelchair down a narrow, crowded flight of stairs at the New York Studio School, on East 8th Street in…
Susannah Gold Thanks to Centro Primo Levi, on Sunday, May 22, the choir from the Tempio Maggiore – the Synagogue of Rome – came to New York City to perform a number of special works for the first time. The…
George Robinson When it was home to the greatest empire the world had yet known, it was said that all roads led to Rome. To build that empire meant sending the city’s sons across much of the known world, yet…
Paul Vitello. Italians took everything from Ursula Korn Selig’s family during World War II, including a hotel the family owned on the Riviera and the money they carried after fleeing Germany’s persecution of Jews in 1938. Italians also saved…
