New Books
Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice (Don Harr�n, University of Chicago Press)
Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love (Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, University of Toronto Press) | Read
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Reading Primo Levi
Aladin Project continues its program of readings of Levi's memoir If This Is a Man in Cairo, Rabat, Casablanca, Istanbul,
Tunisi, Baghdad, Irbil, Amman, Nazareth and Jerusalem).
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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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The New Mobility of Italian Jewish Press: Pagine Ebraiche | By Alessandro Cassin
In
a time when media empires are crumbling and journalism seems like a
dying profession, the Italian Jewish world is going against the grain.
In the fall a new Italian monthly reached newsstands nationwide: Pagine Ebraiche (Jewish Pages) produced by journalist Guido Vitale for UCEI, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
Vitale
appears to be an extremely nimble David among the slow moving Goliaths
of traditional print press. With the scrappiness of early Jewish
entrepreneurs and bare bone resources used to the max, he invented a
smart, provocative Jewish monthly with across the board appeal. Read
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April 21
Moshe Idel: Kabbalah and 20th Century Thought
A videoconference from the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
5:00 pm | Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street, NYC The Center for Jewish History and Centro Primo Levi take you around the world to hear great scholars: don't miss the next unique opportunity with Moshe Idel, Vivian Liska, David N. Myers, and Galili Shahar. Moderator: David B. Ruderman. Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner, to reflect on their relationship to Kabbalah in a cosmopolitan, mostly European context. RSVP: rsvp@primolevicenter.org | More information |
April 27-28-29 | AMERICORDO
Italy, Exile, and the New World
04/27 > JCC of Manhattan | 7 pm
Journalist Gianna Pontecorboli discusses her research on the Italian Jewish exiles in New York between 1938 and 1945.
04/28 > Italian Cultural Institute | 7 pm
Revisiting Italy with Franco Modigliani. Renato Camurri (University of Verona) presents a newly published collection of articles by Franco Modigliani.
04/29 > Italian Academy at Columbia University | 9 am - 5 pm
Centro Primo Levi and The
European Institute at Columbia University, under the auspices of the
Consulate General of Italy and the Italian
Cultural Institute.
Opening remarks Ambassador Richard Gardner and Ira Jolles. Speakers: Victoria De Grazia, John Davis, Renato Camurri, Fraser Ottanelli, Annalisa Capristo. Paola Mieli, Andrew Viterbi, George Sacerdoti, Manuela Yona Paul, Eva Yona Deykin, Guido Calabresi, Vivian Treves, John Tedeschi, Sandro Gerbi, Alexander Stille, Gianna Pontecorboli, Claude Ghez.
In the annals of the Jewish and Italian communities in America there is
little mention, if any, of Italian Jews.
Indeed, with hardly any major
figures in the 19th century and fewer than two thousand individuals
forced to emigrate in 1938 by the Fascist racial laws, the arrival of
Italian Jews in the New World is not a phenomenon that allows a general
study. Since the late 1990s, however, many memoirs have been written,
and a story that does not quite fit any categorization has begun to
emerge. | Full program
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April 15 | Secular, Modern, and Sacred
Biblical Images and Secular Representations: The Performance of Antiquity in Contemporary Israeli Culture
6:30 pm | Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street. NYC
Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers University
The
Bible contributed to the shaping of Israeli national identity and
culture during its formative years and the early decades following the
foundation of the state. Biblical images, symbols and themes were
reinterpreted, secularized, and transformed in Israeli official
iconography, literature, art, and popular culture. The discussion of the changing attitudes toward the
Bible provides a distinct lens to understanding major trends within
contemporary Israeli culture. Read
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April 26 | Evelina Meghnagi in a Rare Appearance at the Italian Cultural Institute
7:00 pm | Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue
In the intimate salon setting of the Italian Cultural Institute Ms. Meghnagi will present a fascinating mix of languages and
music, melodies and rhythms from archaic and contemporary worlds.
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