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Centro Primo Levi congratulates i-Italy on 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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BOOK PRESENTATION A MARRIAGE IN WAR AND PEACE. A CONVERSATION WITH ALEXANDER STILLE
May 6 | 6:00 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim� | 24 West 12th Street, New York The program is free and no reservation is requiredAlexander Stille in conversation with Stefano Albertini and Alessandro Cassin. "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" by Alexander Stille 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. Read
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PRINTED MATTER
FROM SARAJEVO TO PARMA, A JEWISH FAMILY DURING WWII
Liliana Picciotto
In the days that preceded Christmas 1941, before the eyes of the stunned inhabitants of the community of Gramignazzo di Sissa, agricultural center of the Bassa Parmense region on the delta of the Taro River, which counted a few hundred residents, an unusual scene unfolded.
At the entrance of the village's inn, a bunch of men crowded around, who, having hung their capes for the day, were smoking and energetically playing cards, when from the coach arriving from Parma descended a large group of civilians loaded with suitcases and children. Dressed in their city clothes, they looked around, disoriented, searching for someone to welcome them or tell them where to go, where to sleep, where to put down their belongings. Read
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FROM ITALY PRIMO LEVI PRIZE AWARDED TO JAKOB FINCI
May 12 | 5:30 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Centro Culturale Primo Levi, Genoa
Pino Boero (Comune di Genova), Piero Dello Strologo (Centro Culturale Primo Levi), NerkezArifhodzic (Ambassador, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Renzo Gattegna (Union of the Italian Jewish Communities), Silvio Ferrari (historian). www.centroprimolevi.it
A member of the century old local Sephardic community, Mr. Finci is a Bosnian lawyer, diplomat and preeminent human rights activist. He is among the founders of the Jewish cultural, educational and humanitarian society La Benevolencija, inspired by and named after the historical Jewish benevolent association that was shut down after the German-Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941
During the Bosnian war, La Benevolencija was the only Bosnian humanitarian organization working as implementing partner for UNHCR, and was one of the most successful NGOs, in the assistance of all citizens of Sarajevo and Bosnia Herzegovina on a non-sectarian basis. Read
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PRINTED MATTER | FASCIST IMPERIAL DREAMS, A CONVERSATION WITH DAVIDE RODOGNO
Mussolini's short-lived empire has often been thought of dismissively as an operetta affair. In addition to its colonies in Africa, between 1940 and 1943 Italy annexed or occupied a number of territories extending from France Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia to Greece. In the decades following the end of the war, as Italy was rebuilding itself as a democracy, the history of this military occupation and the forced "Italianization" of its people was often downplayed. Read
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Portraits of Sarajevo, Zlatko Dizdarevic, Midhat Ridjanovic, Ammiel Alcalay (Fromm Intl, 1995)
Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinović, transl. by Ammiel Alcalay (City Lights, 1998)
Requiem for a Country, Jasha Levi, Editions JML Hibou, 2011
Blood Without Honey, Jasha Levi, Editions JML Hibou, 2012
Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook, Stephen Schwartz, Saqi Books, 2005 Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe, Emily Greble, Cornell University Press, 2011
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