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This is the third year that Centro Primo Levi and the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies co-present a lecture series aimed at bridging academic and public debate and at expanding interpretative possibilities in the study of the Jewish experience.
With a focus on an aspect of Jewish global civilization that is defined as "mercantile, transnational, and reliant upon money as a source of power," this seminar analyzes the economic dimensions of European Jewish history, their material manifestations, and ideological outcome. Overcoming the abiding reluctance to engage the Jews' historic economic functions, which have long nourished anti-Semitic fantasies, three major scholars take an in-depth look at Jewish banking, trading, and economic thinking and discuss the dynamics that connected Italy, with its strategic geopolitical position, Northern and Central Europe, and the countries of the Mediterranean basin.
The public program of Centro Primo Levi was made possible in part by the generous support of the Cahnman Foundation in memory of Italian scientist and philanthropist Gisella Levi.
Admission: $10, $5 for students at the door.
Reservations: rsvp@primolevicenter.org
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Centro Primo Levi
15 West 16th Street - New York, New York 10011 - www.primolevicenter.org
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