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PROGRAM | PLACES AND LIFE OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN SOUTHERN ITALY
March 31 at 6:00 pm | Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue
RSVP: www.iicnewyork.esteri.it. Program in memory of Cesare Colafemmina
Mauro Perani (University of Bologna, AISG)
Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, University of Pennsylvania)
Dedicated to Prof. Cesare Colafemmina's lifetime work, this program explores the richness of Apulian and Southern Italian Jewish history, current research and communal experience. Southern Italy was home to vibrant Jewish communities since ancient Roman times. Between the 8th and the 13th centuries became a preeminent center of Jewish learning attracting rabbinical scholars from Spain, Provence and other Mediterranean countries. Although formal Jewish life came to an end in the 16th century, Judaism has remained part of the cultural fabric of the region. Read
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PROGRAM | IN TRANI, A COLLECTION OF MUSIC FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS
April 3 at 6:00 pm | Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue
RSVP: www.iicnewyork.esteri.it. Pugliesi Federation of New York and the Italian Cultural Institute
Francesco Lotoro. Piano performance and conversation
Francesco Lotoro studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Fascinated by the Jewish heritage of his region, Lotoro began to research the story of Apulian Jewry and over the course of several years, became the leading force in the reconstruction of Trani's Jewish community. As a musicologist Lotoro has focused on the music written in concentration camps and curated KZ Musik (48 CD volumes) containing all of the music composed in camps during World War II in Europe, North Africa and Asia. He will perform in New York for the first time. Read
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SEMINARS | THE JEWS OF LIBYA BETWEEN THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE COLONIAL ERA
April 25th at 9:30 am - 1:30 pm New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim�, 24 West 12 Street, NY RefreshmentsDavid Meghnagi (University of Rome 3) Mordechai HaCohen (1856-1929): Rabbi and Ethnographer Psychoanalyst and historian David Meghnagi will explore the life and work of the Libyan Talmudic scholar and self-taught anthropologist Mordechai HaCohen who, in the early 20th century, composed an ethnographic study of North African Jewry and of its relations with the Islamic world. Barbara Spadaro (University of Bristol) From "Mapping Living Memories" to Investigating Postcolonial Histories. Narratives of the Jews from Libya. Woven into the colonial past which binds Italy and Libya, the histories and memories of the Jews from Libya provide a crucial perspective on the transnational framework where Italian ideas of race, difference and citizenship have been elaborated and transformed over the 19th and 20th centuries. Read
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MARCH 24, 1943 | THE FOSSE ARDEATINE
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THANKS
Centro Primo Levi thanks its readers, audience, contributors and main supporters: Viterbi Family Foundation, Cahnman 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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