Remembering Tullia Zevi (1919-2011)
Tullia Zevi, writer, journalist and public intellectual, former president of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection and would like to share with our readers the speech she gave in 1999 on the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Carlo Rosselli. Read
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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, Books, and Academia. To know more about Primo Levi and his work visit Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin. Find out more on our homepage.
Centro Primo Levi Thanks:
The Viterbi Family Foundation, and the Cahnman Foundation,
Travel for our programs is provided by Alitalia USA.
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Roundtable at Columbia University explores current trends in the study of Italian Jewish cultural ad social history
March 2, 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm 513 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue Reservations and information: Kerren Marcus
Columbia Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies will host a roundtable on current trends in the study of Italian Jewish cultural and social history, co-sponsored by the Primo Levi Center. Convened by Francesca Bregoli of Queens College/CUNY and Jeremy Dauber of Columbia, this event will bring together scholars whose work concentrate on Italian Jewish history: Andrew Berns of the University of Pennsylvania, Flora Cassen of the University of North Carolina, Bernard Cooperman of the University of Maryland, Lois Dubin of Smith College, Yaacob Dweck of Princeton, and Federica Francesconi of the University of Oregon. Read |
The Italian Philosophy and Art of Carlo Michelstaedter
"When the brilliant young Italian-Jewish philosopher, poet and artist Carlo Michelstaedter killed himself in 1910 at age 23, he must not have suspected that a century on, he and his works would be internationally celebrated. After initial neglect, a major exhibit opened in October at the National Savings Bank Foundation of his native city of Gorizia in northeastern Italy, close to the Slovenian border."
Benjamin Ivry reviews it in The Forward: Carlo Michelstaedter: Far Di Se Stesso Fiamma". Read
Find out more about Carlo Michelstaedter through our book selection: Thomas Harrison's The Emancipation of Dissonance (University of California Press, 1996). |
Torat Chaijm: a website to honor Rabbi Menachem Emanuele Artom (1916-1992)
A new website dedicated to the debate on Jewish Law was launched last week in Turin on the occasion of the conference organized in honor of the late Rabbi Menachem Emanuele Artom z"l. The site is hosted by the portal of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.
A graduate of the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Rome, Rabbi Artom was a pupil of two famous Italian teachers, Rabbi Umberto Cassutto and his father Rabbi Elia Artom. In 1939 he made aly� and moved to Moshav� Magdiel. For over 20 years Rabbi Artom worked for the Israeli government. In 1973 he retired and went back to Italy where he held the positions of Chief Rabbi of Venice and Chief Rabbi of Turin, and taught modern Hebrew and Jewish literature at the University of Venice. His published works include the Italian-Hebrew dictionary, the Italian edition of Maimonides's Sefer HaMitzvot and Hebrew translations of Italian classics from Boccaccio to Pirandello.
His last effort brought to press a beautiful Italian machazor according to the customs of all Italian communities. Rabbi Artom was the editor of the journal Torat Chaijm which is now available in Hebrew and Italian from the Moked portal. Go to the website | The Italian Machazor
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Kosher & Good: Another Italian Secret?
The Kosher Food & Wine Experience opens on February 22nd at the Chelsea Piers. Some Italian wines champion the finest artisanal tradition and offer little-known historical perspective on kashruth.
Among these, the only all-kosher Italian winery, La Macie, will present its Chianti Classico "Terre di Seta". We have asked Rabbi Umberto Piperno to talk about wine making, Italy and kashruth.
Rabbi Umberto Piperno comes from a family of Roman and Sephardic descent, and he resides in New York with his wife and three children. He conducts the Beth Aharon Congregation's Sephardic Italian minyan at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, and often brings an Italian touch to holiday celebrations around town. Rabbi Piperno is ordained by the Rome Italian Rabbinical College (1983) and Yeshiva University (2010). He is also an expert gourmet and an exceptional connoisseur of Italian food and wine. Following his curiosity in food history and a trajectory of tastes has led Piperno to reconstruct traditional food craft in the most remote regions of Italy. He has studied the best applications of the laws of kashruth in the production of fine food. While the most arduous rules may appear self evident when explained by Rabbi Piperno with his cheerful disposition, he will not put up with any dogmatic simplification of the law: ultimately, rule resides in the eye of the beholder and the knowledge of the observer, all else is mystery to make the practice worthwhile. Read
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