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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Italy Never Forgets, and Neither Does America

Francesca Giuliani

On January 27, i-Italy attended the memorial ceremony held at the Consulate of Italy and spoke to the many attending guests. These are the comments we gathered, and they all teach...

A Jewish Farewell to Consul General Talò

Benedetta Grasso

On July 12 2011, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations held a celebratory lunch that recognized Francesco Maria Talò’s contribution to the Jewish...

On The Music of the Jews in Rome

Francesco Spagnolo

The Choir of Rome's Tempio Maggiore will debut on Sunday, May 22 at 2:30 pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Please read this article, courtesy of Centro Primo Levi New York

Italy to Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United States

A series of events in Washington DC and throughout the United States will honor the victims of the Holocaust

New Voices on Primo Levi: Andrea Liberovici

Benedetta Grasso

During the 4th International Symposium “New Voices on Primo Levi”, the Italian artist Andrea Liberovici will present his multimedia performance The Transparency of the Word,...

Did James Joyce Call Bloom the Man who Had Called Himself Svevo?

Benedetta Grasso

Join Centro Primo Levi and the JCC in Manhattan in celebrating Bloomsday on an evening dedicated to the Italian writer Italo Svevo (born Ettore Schmitz in 1861 in Trieste)

An Authentic Voice from the Roman Jewish Ghetto

Benedetta Grasso

"Una Storia Romana" is a documentary that takes us back to Rome, in 1943 when a young girl, Enrica Sermoneta, managed to survive the deportation and the difficult economic...

De-Portees: an Artistic & Conceptual Look at the Holocaust

BENEDETTA GRASSO

The exhibit De/Portees by the contemporary artist Jack Sal opened on January 27 2010 at The Italian Cultural Institute, during the annual reading of the names of the deported...

How Italy Became Racist. A Conversation with Lia Levi

Alessandro Cassin

On November 4, Lia Levi will present her book 'The Jewish Husband' at the Center for Jewish History in New York. It provides a poignant reflection on the far-reaching consequences...

Primo Levi Symposium: Reflecting On The Holocaust

Susannah Gold

Primo Levi Symposium: A Moment of Reflection On the Life and Works of this Great Writer. Some Thoughts On Being A Foreign Jew In Modern Italy

Misunderstanding Primo Levi

Ernesto Ferrero*

Within the catastrophe of the Shoah, humanity was fortunate that the train leaving Italy for Auschwitz in February 1944 was transporting a special envoy: an anthropologist not yet...

Reading Primo Levi in Italy and in the World. A Video Interview with Natalia Indrimi

“Many versions of Primo Levi exist, and they depend of course very much on the different cultures that read him...” In this video interview Natalia Indrimi, Director of the...

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