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EVENTS | GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA
Presented by the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim�, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies, CUNY.
January 27 | 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Consulate General of Italy, 689 Park Avenue
Ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories
January 29 | 6:00 pm
CUNY Calandra Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, NY
Research Notes on Italian Jewish Exiles in the United States, 1938-1945, Fraser Ottanelli (University of South Florida)
January 30 | 6:00 pm
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim�, 24 West 12th Street, NY
The Longest Journey, The Deportation of the Jews of Rhodes
Post screening discussion.
February 4
The Liberty of Knowledge. Remembering Rita Levi Montalcini
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NY, (10 am to 1 pm)
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, (5 pm to 8 pm, reception to follow)
February 13 | 5:00 pm
Italian Academy at Columbia University, 1161, Amsterdam Avenue
Gender and Anti-Semitism: Women's Rights Yesterday and Today
Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University), Yasmine Ergas (Columbia University), Elissa Bemporad (CUNY). Read
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EVENTS | FROM GHETTO TO PALAZZO.
AN AFTERNOON AT THE GONZAGA COURT
January 26 | 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza | 36 Battery Place
Tickets: $25, $30, $35: www.mjhnyc.org and www.salonsanctuary.org
Tickets are going fast, don't miss this rare opportunity! Refreshments will be served. Read
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PRINTED MATTER | ITALY, KRISTALLNACHT AND AFTER: THE MEMORIES OF A FAMILY
Shaul Bassi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Exactly a year ago, in the early days of November 2012, I walked my son to his first day of school. As for all parents, it was a very emotional moment. But for me there was something more: in that ample Venetian courtyard, I was not just seeing my little Samuel proudly walking to his new adventure, I was also seeing another child, standing in the very same spot, 74 years earlier. This is how that 7-year-old child, my father Roberto Bassi, narrates that fateful morning. Read
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PRINTED MATTER | "I NOSTRI COMPAGNI D'AMERICA". THE JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE AND ITALIAN ANTIFASCISTS. 1934-1941
Catherine Collomp, Universit� Paris VII (courtesy Altre Italie)
It was Luigi Antonini who directed Dubinsky's and other JLC leaders' attention to the plight of Italian antifascists. Head of the ILGWU Local 89 of New York dressmakers whose membership was exclusively Italian-American, Antonini pointed out at the ILGWU 1934 convention
that although �Italians had been the first to feel the fascist blow� they were omitted in the JLC and ILGWU calls for a fund for labor and socialist German and Austrian refugees or underground movements.
To correct this oversight, Antonini, in advance of a larger collection,
sent a first check to Pietro Nenni, secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI ) in exile in Paris. Read
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FEBRUARY 4 | THE LIBERTY OF KNOWLEDGE: REMEMBERING RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
Morning Session: Exploring Nerve Growth Factor
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NY, (10 am-1 pm)
Opening remarks: Riccardo Viale (ICI)
Introduction: Moses Chao (NYU)
Speakers: Piergiorgio Strata (National Institute of Neuroscience-Italy), Ralph Bradshaw (UC/Irvine), Ruth Angeletti (Albert Einstein), Lloyd Greene (Columbia University).
Conclusions: Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize, Columbia University).
5 pm to 8 pm
Evening session: A Young Jewish Scientist in Fascist Italy
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York (5 pm-8 pm)
Opening remarks: Alessandro Di Rocco (NYU, CPL)
Introduction: Alain Elkann (writer and scholar)
Film screening: In Praise of Imperfection (excerpts)
Speakers: Piera Levi Montalcini (Levi Montalcini Association), Annalisa Capristo (Center for American Studies, Rome), Antonino Cattaneo (Fondazione Ebri). Evening reception.
A day-long symposium with scientists, family members and historians, dedicated to the legendary Italian scientist and Nobel Prize recipient who built her first laboratory in her bedroom during Mussolini's racial persecutions.
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. She conducted her early experiments in hiding, but rose to the pinnacle of Italian public life. Along the way, she proved that you can exude bella figura from every pore and still win the world's highest intellectual honour. Both were a matter of precision, of flair, and of insisting-sometimes loudly, sometimes in silence-on what she wanted. (A Portrait from The Economist)
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THANKS
Centro Primo Levi thanks its readers, audience, contributors and main supporters: Cahnman Foundation, Viterbi Family Foundation, Peter S. Kalikow Dr. Claude Ghez, David Berg Foundation, John Elkann, Exor, Fairholme Foundation, Charles Hallac & Sarah Keil Wolf, Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet, Marian and Jacob K. Javits Foundation, Andrew Sabin, Lily Safra, Joseph S. & Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, Ezra Zilka
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