May 20: Scola Nova Italiana
The itinerant Italian Synagogue in New York and the Jewish Community of Rome. celebrate Qabbalat Shabbat on May 20th with rav Alberto Funaro and rav Umberto Piperno. The event is generously hosted by Mr. Peter Kalikow. Seating is limited and there is no admission at the door. Register Centro Primo Levi Thanks:
Viterbi Family Foundation,Cahnman Foundation, Peter S. Kalikow, Claude Ghez. Travel for our programs is provided by Alitalia USA.
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May 22 | The Choir of Rome's Tempio Maggiore for the first time in New York
Centro Primo Levi and the Museum of Jewish Heritage host Divinamente NYC Festival on the 150th Anniversary of the unification of Italy.
Welcome remarks by the Consul General of Italy Francesco M. Tal� and the Representative for International Affairs of the Jewish Community of Rome Giacomo Moscati.
Introduction by Francesco Spagnolo, curator at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley, California.
For the first time in the US, the Choir of the "Tempio Maggiore" conducted by the renowned tenor Claudio Disegni and featuring the hazan of Rome, Alberto Funaro, and organist Federico del Sordo, will expose the New York public to the unique flavors and variations of the liturgical tradition of the Jews of Rome.
The concert will open with Giuseppe Verdi's "V� Pensiero," the Hebrew Chorus from Nabucco. This magnificent choral work, which has become a symbol of the unification of Italy, recalls the story of the Babylonian exile after the destruction of the First Temple. The program will celebrate unique examples of late 19th century compositions from the Jewish communities in Florence, Livorno and Rome as well as a 1920 version of Hatikv� by Armando Sorani based on the 17th Century ballade La Mantovana. Read
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Printed matter | Memory Neglected
By Alessandro Cassin
Italy's most significant contribution in this field was the construction in 1979 of a memorial to the Italian Deportees, erected in Auschwitz by the concerted efforts of architect Ludovico Belgiojoso, painter Pupino Samon�, composer Luigi Nono, writer Primo Levi and director Nelo Risi. The result is a Gesamtkunstwerk of rare intensity that envelops the visitor into a space-time narration in which visual, text and musical elements aim at, in Levi words, "allowing a glimpse into the mindset of millions of human beings reduced to the state of slaves or animals about to be slaughtered". Rather than engaging in didactic narration, the work solicits somber meditation and remembrance, and has been internationally recognized as a high example of interdisciplinary memorial artwork. Read
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Printed matter | Between Italy & Israel
By Piero Cividalli
"My father was a Zionist and a follower of rabbi Alfonso Pacifici, a lawyer with a strong personality who had led the Zionist movement in Florence in the 1920s. My father remained close to him throughout his life. When Father spoke to us children about Israel, he described a far away and foreign land but one that was also dear to his heart."
A prosperous Italian Jewish family, antifascist and friends of the Rosselli brothers decides - when faced with the racial laws, to emigrate to Israel. This is the story of a son of Florence and his tumultuous life: a care-free childhood in Tuscany, a difficult adolescence in Israel, a return to Europe with the Jewish Brigades in 1945, participation in the 1948 War and in the ones that followed. He tells a story about Zionist ideals, the illusions and the indelible memory of combat. Read
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