Gemma Vitale Servadio, I am Counting on You, on Everyone ... (CPL Editions, 2015). Introduction by Mirella Bedarida Shapiro. With an essay by historian Marco Coslovich.

With Alessandro Cassin, Mirella Bedarida Shapiro and Marco Coslovich

Film screening: The Jews of Fossoli, by Ruggero Gabbai and Liliana Picciotto (excerpts)

Turin-born Gemma Vitale Servadio was arrested with her elderly mother in their home. They were sent to Fossoli, the main concentration camp in Italy and from there to Auschwitz, where they were murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival.

This book presents the eight letters Gemma wrote from Fossoli. A bare sequence of urgent requests and unexpressed fears, these pages stand as a tangible frontier between two women's incomprehensible final moments and a life as they knew it. Read

PROGRAMS

OCTOBER 15, 8:15 PM | A CELEBRATION OF PRIMO LEVI'S COMPLETE WORKS

92 Y | Lexington Avenue at 92nd St. Buttenwieser Hall

Tickets: www.92y.org

After 12 years of work, W.W. Norton presents Primo Levi's Complete Works in English. Thus Levi becomes the first Italian writer whose oeuvre is available in English in its entirety.

Primo Levi (1919-1987), a chemist and humanist who survived Auschwitz, is known worldwide for If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table. His work has been translated in 38 languages and has become a point of reference in the reflection upon human nature and the process by which a society can turn into a persecutory machine.

In spite of three decades of expanding scholarship in English, many of Levi's works, as well as the diversity of themes and literary registers, remain little known to the broader public.

When, over 12 years ago, W.W. Norton's publisher Bob Weil and editor Ann Goldstein undertook this challenging endeavor for the Liveright imprint, they sought to widen the understanding of Levi's literary legacy as one of the 20th century's great writers.

Centro Primo Levi NY has been involved in this long journey by supporting Ann Goldstein in her exchange with the Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin, the foremost research center on Levi's work that helped develop an invaluable section of indexes and appendixes to the three volumes.

We welcome the publication and invite all of you to join the presentation at the 92Y followed by our exciting reading series, beginning on October 21 and held in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Center for Fiction through May 2016. A roster of prominent readers including Joan Acocella, Paola Mieli, Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Rothberg, Esther Allen, Ann Goldstein, André Naffis-Sahely, Jonathan Galassi, Manuela Consonni, Uri Cohen and others will discuss themes such as Normality, Friendship, Grey Zone, Translation, Poetry, Judaism, Commerce and Love. Read

PROGRAMS

OCTOBER 21, 7:00 PM | READINGS FROM PRIMO LEVI'S COMPLETE WORKS

A conversation based on A Silver Martian, Normality and Segregation in Primo Levi's Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge by Paola Mieli, (CPL Editions, 2015)

Center for Fiction, | 17 E. 47th Street.

Tickets: www.centerforfiction.org

With Paola Mieli (psychoanalyst) and Joan Acocella (writer and critic).

Film screening: Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge, directed by Massimo Scaglione (RAI, 1978), a television short produced in collaboration with the author (Italian w/English subtitles)

As a survivor moved to become a writer by the "necessity" to share his experience, Primo Levi narrated the devastating effects of the deprivation of one's subjectivity in the lager. New York and Paris based psychoanalyst Paola Mieli traces the voice of Levi the storyteller in his reflection on the causes and implications of what he defined as an "immense biological and social experiment," pondering on the issue of segregation in our times and on the heritage the camps have bequeathed onto the present. Read

BOOKS & ESSAYS

Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Shemot Translated and edited by Daniel A. Klein

Susan Knittel, The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, Fordham University Press, 2015.

Manuela Consonni, L'eclisse dell'antifascismo, Laterza, 2015

Hobson Faure, Laura, Un "plan Marshall juif": La présence juive américaine en France après la Shoah, 1944-1954. Read

ACADEMIA

Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: the Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950). October 2016 to March 2017

Transcultural memory and reception in Europe - 3rd plenary conference, Sofia,18-21 April 2016. Read

SAN FRANCISCO

ONE BAY ONE BOOK | A YEARLONG SERIES ON THE PERIODIC TABLE

Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco

The Periodic Table, Primo Levi's complex and beautifully rendered book first published forty years ago, was selected for the 2015-2016 "One Bay One Book" program. Defying categorization, The Periodic Table is considered the greatest science book ever written, and an invaluable record both of Levi's life and of the experience of Jews in northern Italy. Read

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