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Centro Primo Levi congratulates i-Italy on the launching of its new print magazine!
Visit the website and pick up your free copy at Eataly.
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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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PRINTED MATTER HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Alessandro Cassin
As it often happened in the past, among this year's initiatives to commemorate Yom HaShoah, there is little mention of the persecution carried out against Jews in Italy.
The long held view, particularly from outside Italy, is that Fascist Italy did not kill or deport Jews until the autumn of 1943, when the center and north of the country were invaded by the Nazis, the true perpetrators. This fits well in a narrative which portrays Mussolini's regime as an "operetta dictatorship", unable to implement any of its proclaimed intents, and Italy as a country where anti-Semitism had been negligible or absent until 1938. Following Michele Sarfatti's seminal The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution, in the last 15 years, historians have convincingly demonstrated this narrative to be deeply flawed. Read
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CONFERENCE FERRAMONTI: 70 YEARS
April 24 | 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Centro Ebraico Il Pitigliani | Via Arco de' Tolomei, 1, Roma | www.fondazioneferramonti.it International Network For Ferramonti, Fondazione Ferramonti, Centro Ebraico Italiano Il Pitigliani, Provincia di Cosenza, Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Primo Levi Center di New York, Fondazione Museo della Shoah, Unione delle Comunit� Ebraiche Italiane e Italia Nostra.
Mario Avagliano, Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Alberto Cavaglion, Teresa Grande, Giovanna Grenga Kuck, Boris Gombač, Beniamino Lazar, Liliana Picciotto, Anna Longo, Enrico Modigliani, Boris Pahor, Leone Passerman, Claudio Pavone, Anna Pizzuti, Mario Rende, Anna Rossi-Doria, Riccardo Schwamenthal, Piero Terracina, Mario Toscano, Maurizio Toson Marin, Klaus Voigt, James Walston. Read
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PRINTED MATTER SURVIVAL AND DEPORTATION IN SAN DONATO DEL COMINO
Anna Pizzuti's website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II.
In the landscape of contemporary literature on the Shoah in Italy, Anna Pizzuti's Vite di carta. Storie di ebrei stranieri internati dal fascismo, Donzelli 2009, Rome, is an apparently small book that packs a big punch.
Sixty-five years since the end of the war we are still struggling to understand the conditions that allowed some foreign Jews residing in Italy to survive while others were deported and murdered. As well as to understand the complex circumstances by which the Italian people alternatively protected and persecuted the Jews.
According to an estimate by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, in 1938, as the Fascists implemented the Racial Laws, there were 9170 foreign Jews living in Italy. At that point the Jews who had become Italian citizens after 1919 were striped of citizenship and found themselves stateless. Read
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PRINTED MATTER MEMORY BURIED: IN SEARCH OF MUSSOLINI'S CAMPS
Carlo Spartaco Capogreco is a professor at the Universit� della Calabria and president of Fondazione Ferramonti, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of the largest Jewish internment camp in southern Italy. He is an independent scholar in every sense of the word. For the past 20 years, through detailed archival research, fieldwork, and extensive interviews with survivors, Prof. Capogreco has painstakingly reconstructed the realities of civil internment during the Fascist era. This has allowed him to reconstruct a comprehensive historical-geographical mapping of internment camps and other forms of confinement devised by Mussolini during 20 years of dictatorship. Read
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BOOK PRESENTATION A MARRIAGE IN WAR AND PEACE. CONVERSATION WITH ALEXANDER STILLE
May 6 | 6:00 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim� | 24 West 12th Street, New York One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century-one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest-and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Read
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