The Italian Jewish World

Explore Italian Jewish studies and culture in Italy, Israel, and the Americas. The weekly and monthly features of CPL include: Printed Matter by Alessandro Cassin, The Centaur by Franco Baldasso, Books, and Academia.  To know more about Primo Levi and his work visit Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin.

Giorno della Memoria: January 27 

Centro Primo Levi jointly with the Consulate General of Italy, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the John Calandra Italian American Institute, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Italian Cultural Institute, RAI Corporation and I-Italy in cooperation with the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the JCC of Manhattan presents a series of programs dedicated to memory and the Fascist persecutions in Italy. All programs on January 27 are held in English and are free to the public.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010 | full program

9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Consulate General of Italy
Park Avenue at 68th Street | outdoor
Reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories | RSVP: memoria@primolevicenter.org

6:00 pm | Center for Jewish HIstory
15 West 16th Street, NYC  
Reading of selected testimonies by Italian survivors from
"Il Libro della Shoah Italiana" Edited by Marcello Pezzetti,
Einaudi, 2009, Courtesy of CDEC. With Robert Zukerman. Musical interventions by Steve Elson. In collaboration with the Jewish Heritage Project.

January 27 through February 27 | Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue, NYC
De/Portees. A multi screen installation by Jack Sal. Details
Mussolini's Camps
Sunday, January 31 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Italian Jews, Foreign Jews: Common Destiny and Plurality
of Experiences in Fascist Italy

Film Screening: The Jews of Fossoli (Ruggero Gabbai, Marcello Pezzetti, Liliana Picciotto Fargion, Courtesy CDEC).
Speakers: Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Doris Schechter, Moderator: Alessandro Cassin.

During the five years from 1938 to 1943, Jews residing in Italy were subjected to increasingly harsh persecution, as a result of both the racial laws and the  state run anti-Semitic propaganda.
This program will provide an overview of the wide range of radically different experiences of Jews in Italy during this period, as well as various attitudes of the gentile population, from help and solidarity to hostility and betrayal.View program
Memories of Roman Jews: Beyond Inquisition and Persecution

February 1 | NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, February 2 | JCC of Manhattan, February 3 | Museum of Jewish Heritage, February 16 | Italian Academy at Columbia

A journey through fragments of memory of a vital and distinctly independent Jewish community in whose traditions and history the antique and the modern coexist, as in a jewelry box handed  down through generations. Through film, lectures, and discussion, this series of four programs opens a window on the rich cultural landscape of Roman Jewry while exposing tragic moments in its history: the round up of the community in 1943 and the abuses and forced baptisms of the times of the ghetto. View program