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Centro Primo Levi congratulates i-Italy on the launching of its new print magazine!
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THANKS
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.
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PROGRAM SONG FOR LIFE. CHARLETTE SHULAMIT OTTOLENGHI IN MEMORY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
April 10 at 7:00 pm | The Museum of Jewish Heritage | 36 Battery Place. Box Office: 646.437.4202
Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland and the Consulate General of Italy on the occasion on the 70th Anniversary of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Ms. Ottolenghi will be accompanied by the renowned pianist Shai Bachar and trumpeter Frank London . Read
In world of increasing upheaval, we do not want that the sacrifice of the insurgents of the Warsaw Ghetto be forgotten. They demonstrated that even when everything is lost, human beings can preserve their dignity and that of the future generations. Primo Levi, 1983
In Italy, like elsewhere, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto became a symbol of resistance, of a world that would never return and a new one that was about to be born. Israeli singer Charlette Shulamit Ottolenghi looks back on the millenarian musical and liturgical heritage, that was largely destroyed in the Shoah, and chooses its most beautiful pieces to pay tribute to the memory of men and women who had the vision and the courage to break the logic of destruction.
The repertoire of this concert draws on her two main projects: Italia Ebraica and A Voice for Life-Songs of Women in the Shoah, a program of songs written by Jewish and non Jewish women musicians in the camps.
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SEMINAR BEYOND THE GHETTO. NEW RESEARCH AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF ITALY
April 12- 10:30 am - 1:30 pmCasa Italiana Zerilli Marim� | 24 West 12 Street The seminar is free and intended for students and faculty. Limited seats will be assigned to the general public pending availability. No admission at the door. Registration is required at rsvp@primolevicenter.org
Marina Caffiero (University of Rome) and Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome)
The Jewish experience in the Italian peninsula, though subject to rules and restrictions, appears as an essential component of the society at large. In Italy, the lack of attention on the intersection and parallelisms between Jewish history and Christian history has meant that the Jews have long been "invisible" from the overall historical narrative. This led historians to neglect the valuable wealth of information that emerges from the analysis of institutions, norms and behaviors related to the Jews, which today prove essential for a deeper comprehension of Italian society from a national and European perspective. Within this interpretative framework, Marina Caffiero will discuss the relationships and exchanges - cultural, social and institutional - between the Jewish minority and the Christian majority. Read This seminar will also be held on April 8th at UCLA/Center for Jewish Studies as part of the Viterbi program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies. |
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AAIS CONFERENCE THE DIARY OF ANNA DEL MONTE
April 10, University of Oregon
Kenneth Stow, "Anxieties in Conflict: The Diary of Anna del Monte"
Fearful of the radical changes, both religious and political, that typified the later eighteenth century, the contemporary Roman Church reinvigorated policies initiated in the mid-sixteenth century aimed at Jewish conversion. No element of the Church was more radical in this regard than the adepts of the Roman House of Converts, who linked conversion, which they saw as benefiting the faith, with charges of ritual murder, the epitome of Jewish denigration. Read
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FROM THE ARCHIVES RAV SABATO MORAIS (Livorno 1823- Philadelphia 1867)
From Arthur Kiron's introduction to the Sabato Morais Ledger, University of Pennsylvania Library Sabato Morais had tutored Cyrus Adler as a child, and it had been Adler's hope to complete a biography of his teacher. [...]
The Sabato Morais Ledger, as it is now known, belonged to the leading representative of enlightened Orthodox Judaism in 19th century America. Morais was born in Livorno, in the Italian duchy of Tuscany on April 23, 1823. He was the descendant of Portuguese Conversos who returned to Judaism during the seventeenth century. Morais was a proud advocate of the Sephardic heritage as a model for creating what he called "a regenerated Judaism" on the "virgin soil" of America. Morais possessed a vivid historical imagination and a devout appreciation of the need to preserve Judaism.
He relentlessly stressed the need to observe historical practices and taught the Jewish doctrines transmitted to him as a child and as a rabbinical student in Livorno. He also grew up during a period of revolutionary change. Both his father and grandfather were freemasons and actively involved in the Risorgimento, the movement to bring national unity and independence to the Italian peninsula. Morais received a traditional Sephardic religious education in Livorno but was also exposed from childhood to radical republican activism. After leaving Livorno for London in 1846 to seek employment at an Orphan School attached to the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation at Bevis Marks, Morais was befriended by many of the Italian emigre intellectuals, including Giuseppe Mazzini, perhaps the leading voice of the Italian cause.
Morais, thus, brought to Philadelphia from Europe a distinct set of ideas about religion and politics. He devoted the remaining four decades of his life, beginning in 1851, espousing and defending his version of enlightened rabbinic Judaism. The scrapbook he kept is a unique record of the path he charted, the time through which he lived, and the highly charged controversies in which he became embroiled.
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