Memoria e Storia: Programs
Please join us for a series of programs and discussions exploring the history of discrimination and persecution in Fascist Italy. Calendar.
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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.
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Tomorrow, Jan. 27: Giorno della Memoria
9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Consulate General of ItalyPark 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 HIstory15 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 and Antoinette La Vecchia. Improvised musical interludes by Steve Elson. In collaboration with the Jewish Heritage Project and Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan.
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Memory Buried: In Search of Mussolini's Camps
Alessandro Cassin interviews Carlo Spartaco Capogreco.
Carlo Spartaco Capogreco is a professor at the Università della
Calabria and president of Fondazione Ferramonti, which is dedicated to
preserving the memory of the largest Jewish internment camp in southern
Italy. He is an independent scholar in every sense of the word. For the
past 20 years, through detailed archival research, fieldwork, and
extensive interviews with survivors, Prof. Capogreco has painstakingly
reconstructed the realities of civil internment during the Fascist era.
This has allowed him to reconstruct a comprehensive
historical-geographical mapping of internment camps and other forms of
confinement devised by Mussolini during 20 years of dictatorship. Read more
This
interview is part of a series of articles on history and memory,
published on the CPL website in connection with Giorno della Memoria.
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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
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Translating Dante in Hell
By Franco Baldasso
The passage is one of the most celebrated and quoted in Primo Levi's entire work. In the chapter "The Canto of Ulysses," from Survival in Auschwitz,
the writer recounts an "unhoped-for hour of open air" within the
atrocious routine of the Lager. Levi is chosen by Jean, a young
Alsatian, the "Pikolo"-the Kapo's right-hand man and "a quite high rank
in the hierarchy of the Prominents" of the camp1-to
accompany him in bringing the vat containing the daily ration of soup.
It is a desired and singular occasion, being one hour of time to reach
the kitchen and return. An hour, therefore, without the torment of
forced labor and the fear of being beaten. It is an occasion for
exchanging a few words, and Pikolo asks Levi to teach him Italian. Read
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