The Centaur A Tranquil Star? Primo Levi, the Man and the Narrator is the first of a series of essays and interviews by Franco Baldasso (NYU) that will be published as part of the monthly online column The Centaur. read
October 25, 26, 27 The International Symposium on Primo Levi offers unprecedented opportunities to hear Primo Levi's longtime editor Ernesto Ferrero, explore the reaches of Agamben's readings of his books, and the complexities of translating his memoir into German, Arabic, and Farsi. read
Books Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology of Violence and the Human Spirit Clifford Chanin, Aili McConnon, Rutgers University Press The twentieth century
is frequently characterized in terms of its unprecedented levels of
bloodshed. More human beings were killed or allowed to die by human
cause than ever before in history. The impact of the century's carnage
does not end at the lives that were taken; the atrocities continue to
take their toll on those who survived, on those who bore witness, and
on succeeding generations. read
Conferences The Genocide and Human Experience. The Writings of Raphael Lemkin. November 15 at the Center for Jewish History. Information Almost 90 years ago, as a young linguistics student in Poland, Raphael
Lemkin was troubled by the case of an
Armenian youth accused of murdering the Turkish official responsible
for the 1915 attempted destruction of the Armenian community in the
Ottoman Empire. Perplexed by the question of why it is a crime for one
man to murder another, but not a crime for a government to kill more
than a million people, Lemkin devoted the rest of his life to studying and actively campaigning to protect the
existence of ethnic, racial, religious and
national groups under international law.
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Studying in Italy and beyond
Live and Learn in Venice
As
the Venice Ghetto approaches its 500th Anniversary, the Jewish and
intellectual communities of Venice reflect on its tradition of
seclusion and cosmopolitanism, as well as on the paradoxes of its
present condition: while the Ghetto has become one of the most popular
destinations in Europe, visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists,
the Jewish community, numbering less than 500, may be on the verge of disappearance. A small group of community leaders and international
intellectuals is trying to put a new spin on how "to
live and learn in Venice". read more
Apulia, A Land of Jewish Arrivals and Departures Alessandro Cassin interviews Fabrizio Lelli
The last Jews left Apulia in 1541. In 2001 Fabrizio Lelli
arrived at the University of Lecce to teach Hebrew language and
literature, in a city with no Jewish population. This year, from Sept.
6th through the 10th, Apulia will mount the NEGBA, a Festival of Jewish Culture. Professor
Lelli is ideally suited to help us navigate these prima facie
contradictions. Trained in Florence and Venice ( and later in
Jerusalem, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA) "My field is Tuscan
Jewry, particularly during the Renaissance, a period when the Jews
had all but disappeared from Apulia". This did not discourage him from
launching in Lecce one of the few Italian academic Programs of Jewish Studies,
where Hebrew language and literature are taught along with History of
Judaism. The same department also offers courses in medieval and modern
Jewish History as well as contemporary US history with a particular
emphasis on the relationship with Israel. read more
Introducing Students to the History of Italian Jews A conversation with Federica Francesconi (Visiting Fellow, Center for the Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto)
The 2009 recipient of the Viterbi Visiting Professorship at UCLA, Federica Francesconi developed a comprehensive lecture-course
dedicated to the Italian Jewish experience from the Middle Ages to the
Present. She talks about the challenges and inspiring results of introducing undergraduate students to the complex universe of Italian Jewry. read more
Italy at the Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies
Explorations
of Jewish Sociability in Italy Before and After Emancipation Jewish
cultural life in Italy went through considerable changes during the eighteenth
century. These transformations regarded not only the contents of cultural
production, but also the social and material conditions of culture - for
instance, its techniques and methods of diffusion. New sites of encounter and
cultural production emerged beside traditional ones (the synagogue, the yeshivah, the confraternity),
such as Jewish literary academies, theatres, public libraries, or coffeehouses.
Some of these new forms of association afforded Jews heightened social contacts
with their non-Jewish neighbors, while others were aimed solely at a Jewish
public.
Session Organizer:
Francesca Bregoli, Queens College, CUNY
Chair: David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan
University;
Federica Francesconi,
University of Toronto
Francesco Spagnolo, Judah
L. Magnes Museum
Judaism in the Mediterranean Context
The 9th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) will be held in Ravenna, Italy, July 25-29, 2010 Visit the EAJS website for additional information.�Judaism in the Mediterranean Context�
Rome Prize The American Academy in Rome, one of the leading overseas centers for
independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, invites applications
for the Rome Prize competition. Deadlines November 1. more opportunities
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