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Centro Primo Levi thanks its readers, audience, contributors and its main supporters:

Cahnman Foundation, Viterbi Family Foundation
Peter S. Kalikow
Dr. Claude Ghez

CPL's logo is designed by Jonathan Wajskol.
PROGRAMS GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA 2013  

Consulate General of Italy in New York, Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Mariṃ, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, Centro Primo Levi NY.

 

Full calendar and educational resources 

 

January 24 at 6:00 pm

IL RAGAZZO DI VIA SACCHI (2011) by Francesco Momberti

Italian Cultural Institute, 868 Park Avenue, NYC

In Italian with English subtitles. Post-screening discussion: Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa) and Tullio Levi (former president of the Jewish Community of Turin)

 

January 28 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm  

REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY

Reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories. Consulate General of Italy, 869 Park Avenue at 68th Street

 

January 31 at 6:30 pm

REHABILITATING WAR CRIMINALS. THE MONUMENT TO RODOLFO GRAZIANI

Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY, 24 West 43rd Street

Lidia Santarelli (Brown University), Yemane Demissie (New York University). Moderator: Andrea Fiano (journalist and former Chairman of CPL). Respondent Girma Abebe, Former Counselor, (Ethiopian Delegation to the UN). See: BBC NEWS: Italy memorial to Fascist hero Graziani sparks row.   

 

February 5 at 6:30 pm

THE SHOAH IN ITALY: BEYOND NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY 

Casa Italiana Zerilli Mariṃ, 24 West 12th Street, NYC

Enzo Traverso (University of Turin, Cornell University) and Susan Zuccotti (author of The Italians and the Holocaust). Respondent Franklin Hugh Adler (Macalester College)

 

February 7 at  5:30 pm

THE "UNFIT". DISABILITY UNDER NAZISM AND FASCISM

Italian Academy at Columbia University, Amsterdam Avenue

Patricia Heberer (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), Susan Bachrach (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), David Forgacs (New York University) 

 

The program of Centro Primo Levi is made possibile through the generous contribution of the Cahnman Foundation and the Viterbi Family.

 

REMEMBERING RITA LEVI MONTALCINI

 

Tre donne per Rita. Elogio di Una Donna Imperfetta. Moked

 

The advantage of living to a very great age is that you tend to have the last word. Rita Levi-Montalcini saw her scientific discoveries sniffed at throughout the 1950s and 1960s, only to win the Nobel prize for physiology in 1986. The Economist

 

Rita Levi-Montalcini, who has died aged 103, overcame racial and sexual prejudice to become a leading neurobiologist and one of the handful of women scientists to win a Nobel Prize. The Telegraph

  

Levi-Montalcini was forced to conduct research in secret in defiance of Italy's racial laws during Mussolini years; her life research increased the understanding of many conditions, including tumors, developmental malformations, and senile dementia. Haaretz 

 

A cerveau battant, rien d'impossible, JIM

PRINTED MATTER THE CHURCH AND THE RIGHTEOUS  


Susan Zuccotti in conversation with Alessandro Cassin

 

Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, archbishop of Florence during World War II, has recently been named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Dalla Costa's courageous and effective actions in favor of Jews in and around Florence must be seen in context, as part of a rescue operation set up and financed by the Italian Jewish relief and resistance group, Delasem (Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants). Read 

 

PRINTED MATTER  BOOK REVIEW. AFTER MUSSOLINI     

 

Paul Arpaia on Guri Schwarz's After Mussolini, Valentine Mitchell 2012

After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy, the translation of Guri Schwarz's Ritrovare se stessi. Gli Ebrei nell'Italia postfascista is one of the most important Italian historical studies translated in 2012.  This two-part study of Italian Jews "(re)discovering themselves " (the literal translation of part of the original title in Italian) is the result of Schwarz's painstaking archival research in public and private collections in Italy and Israel.  It is the fruit of his close readings of diaries, memoirs, newspapers and works of literature. It is the synthesis of his skillful use of multidisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of memory. Read

FROM THE PRESS  "YOU ARE STILL LIVING FOR US..."   

 

Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy, by Christopher Duggan, Bodley Head, 2013. Reviewed by Ian Thomson for the Financial Times

 

Christopher Duggan's Fascist Voices, his excellent new history of Italian Fascism, argues that Nazi Germany had never demanded an anti-Semitic campaign as the price of friendship with Italy. On the contrary, Mussolini resented the imputation that his anti-Jewish legislations of 1938 (the so-called Manifesto of Race) were imposed on him from without. Read 


NEWS       

 

2013 Dorothy Gardner Adler State of Anti-Semitism Lecture

 

"Pietre d'Inciampo" in Rome 

 

Dopo i Testimoni, University of Florence, January 16-18  

 

Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA 

   

Italian Jewish Studies Caucus, University of Oregon, April10-14, 2013 

  

16th World Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, July 2013

 

Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in San Diego

The 54th Annual Meeting, Society for Italian Historical Studies    

 

The Medici and the Levant (1532-1743), Florence, June 2013