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JUNE PROGRAMS
Today, June 12 at 2 pm
The Tree of Life, a film by Hava Volterra
Center for Jewish History | 15 W 16 Street | NYC
Presented by CPL with the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York
Alessandro Cassin, deputy director of Centro Primo Levi, will conduct the post-screening discussion. A personal family saga illuminates the fascinating history of the Jewish people in Italy. The Tree Of Life follows the Israeli-born director, an engineer in Los Angeles, as she struggles to come to terms with her father's death by traveling to Italy, the land of his birth, to trace the roots of his family tree. Beginning in the ancient Adriatic city of Ancona, Hava Volterra and her feisty 82-year old Aunt Viviana travel extensively through Italy, digging up rare historical manuscripts, interviewing an array of quirky historians, and discovering the astonishing and humorous stories of their ancestors, including the da Volterra family of bankers in Florence of the Medici; Ramhal, a Venetian rabbi and mystic involved in the Qabbalah; renowned scientist and mathematician Vito Volterra; New York City's legendary mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; and Luigi Luzzatti, Italy's Jewish prime minister in 1910. Read
June 23 at 6:30 pm
Alain Elkann: Jewish Italian Writers of the Twentieth Century The Jewish Museum | 1109 5th Avenue , NYC
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of New York, invites you to a lecture by Alain Elkann: "Jewish Italian Writers of the Twentieth Century". Noted Italian writer and journalist Alain Elkann will talk about prominent Italian writers of Jewish descent, such as Umberto Saba, Carlo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Primo Levi, Alberto Moravia, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante and Franco Fortini. Introduction by Jonathan Galassi, President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Information and rsvp: f.ricciardoiicny@gmail.com June 27 at 1:00 pm
The Drowned and the Saved: Two Faces of Persecution in Fascist Italy 92Y | Lexington Avenue at 92nd St., NYC Moderated by Alessandro Cassin, Deputy director of Centro Primo Levi The vicissitudes of Italian and foreign Jews under Fascist rule have been the object of in depth studies but are still often presented as contradictory aspects of the same history. Today, thanks to a broad range of interdisciplinary research we are able to present a more cohesive picture of those years. Davide Rodogno (International History and Politics Department & School of History, St. Andrews) and Donato Grosser, whose father Bernardo Grosser, was secretary of the Italian Jewish Relief Agency Delasem, will map the movements and fate of Jews residing in Italy and in Italian occupied territories between 1933-1945, examining the diverse levels of solidarity and persecution encountered. The conversation will have as points of departure the perspective of Italian civil and military authorities and the work of Jewish relief organizations. With the participation of Doris Schechter, who was interned with her family in Guardiagrele, Abruzzi. |
