October 22, 7:00 pm - Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Park Pl.
The Man with the Nagra, 2013, Written and Directed by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman. Produced by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman and Yohanna Levi
The Man with the Nagra, narrates the life and work of Leo Levi, a prominent Italian intellectual, educator and ethnomusicologist who settled in Israel in 1936. The film combines Levi's life story with that of the small community of the "Italkim", his political work as a religious Zionist with his activity as a writer and ethnomusicologist to whom we owe the largest collection of Italian cantorial music preserved both at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
October 23-24
Two days of study and film on the Italian Occupation of Ethiopia
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marim�, New York University, Auditorium
24 West 12th Street
October 23, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Jews of Ethiopia Under Fascist Rule
Emanuela Trevisan (University of Venice C� Foscari) and Brook Abdu (Capucin Franciscan Research and Retreat Center, Addis Ababa)
This seminar focuses on the figure of Taamrat Emmanuel (1888 - 1963) a member of the Beta Israel Community in Ethiopia who, as a young man, was sent to study in France by the Polish Zionist and Orientalist Jacques Faitlovitch. Taamrat continued his education at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Florence and went on to become a leader of Ethiopian Jewry as well as an Ethiopian leader during the dramatic years of the fascist colonial rule, World War II and the subsequent establishment of sovereign Ethiopia and the State of Israel.
Emanuela Trevisan and Brook Abdu will explore Taamrat Emmanuel's work and life through documents he left in European and Ethiopian languages, concerning the colonial period and in its aftermath.
October 24 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Legacies of the Italian Occupation of Ethiopia
Organized by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (History, Italian Studies) and Maaza Mengiste (Creative Writing). Three panels of scholars, writers and public figures from Ethiopia will examine the local legacies of the Italian occupation. Visual and storytelling cultures have been main vehicles of postcolonial expression. The panels will analyze how performance, historical fiction, and film incorporated the narratives of this difficult period and its legacies through several generations.
