Printed Matter
Centro Primo Levi's online monthly on the work of Primo Levi, Italian Jewish history, culture and current affairs. 
Interviews
 
A Primo Levi Atlas 
A conversation with Marco Belpoliti on his latest book Primo Levi: di fronte e di profilo. By Alessandro Cassin

Primo Levi's book for the twenty-first century and beyond is The Drowned and the Saved.  He still needs to be studied and understood, he is an important author for our future. I find his anthropological and ethological perspectives to be decisive. This is the new frontier, without forgetting the Nazi extermination and concentration camps. There are still similar situations in the world, and I fear that it will occur again. In different forms, but this kind of horror will occur again. We see it every day.  And again there is the theme of the "foreigner," xenophobia. [For all of this], unfortunately, Levi continues to be topical and relevant. Read more
Recommended programs
 
August 8
5:30 pm discussion
7:15 pm film screening
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street

Winner of the 2016 Italian Golden Globe, If Only I  Were That Warrior , presents the conflicted perceptions of the Italian colonial venture in Ethiopia, and its reverberations today. Read more

August 14 
4:30 pm 
Shearith Israel
2 West 70th Street 

Tisha B'Av. Screening of Oro Macht Frei. Through testimonies and with the participation of renowned historians such as Alexander Stille, Susan Zuccotti and Liliana Picciotto the film draws the viewer into personal reflection on the Holocaust in Italy and what remains of it today. 

The film will be followed by a lecture by Rabbi Richard Hidary at 6:00 pm: "Job as Read by Modern Existentialists ".

The Book of Job offers the most sublime poetic statement about the deepest struggles with justice, suffering and human existence. This series analyzes this biblical book as interpreted over the course of centuries from the Talmudic sages, to the medieval philosophic tradition to modern writers in order bring forth the eternal relevance of this composition to our own contemporary challenges. Read more
Fascism and Italian American Culture

September 14
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Mariṃ
24 West 12th Street

Presented by Centro Primo Levi - NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Mariṃ and Department of History

Introduction: Ruth Ben Ghiat (New York University)
Fraser Ottanelli (University of South Florida)
Matteo Pretelli (New York University and Middlebury College, Florence)
Discussant: Marcella Bencivenni (Hostos Community College, CUNY)
Venice, the Jews and Europe 1516-2016.
Book Presentation

September 19
6:00 pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway at 26th Street
Cocktail

An evening with Donatella Calabi, curator of the 500th Anniversary exhibition on the Venice ghetto. This beautiful catalogue is now available in English with essays by some of the most prominent scholars in the field. 

The exhibit describes the process that led to the creation of the first urban "fence" around the Jews and the way in which it was observed, transpassed and re-negotiated through the centuries of the Serenissima, creating cultural and linguistic exchanges among the different minorities living on the lagoon. Cosmopolitan within - the Ghetto was home to German and Italian Jews, Levantine, Western and Portuguese Jews - it was a highly permeable space, in constant interaction with the outside world.

Presented by Marsilio Editori and Rizzoli in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. Read more
Primo Levi at the National Book Festival

September 24
9:00 am - 10 pm
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington D.C.

In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C.

An extraordinary roster of writers, poets and artists will participate in the 2016 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Many of America's - and the world's - most distinguished and best known authors will discuss and sign their works in the nation's largest free book festival. For the second consecutive year, the festival will offer an International stage, featuring writers from many nations. This stage will open with a special tribute to author Primo Levi, the Italian scientist and Auschwitz survivor who became an exemplary voice of conscience after World War II. 

The panel, which begins at noon, will feature Primo Levi's translator, Ann Goldstein of the New Yorker, as well as New Yorker cultural critic Adam Gopnik, and will be moderated by Michael Abramowitz of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With the participation of Alessandro Cassin of Centro Primo Levi. A Q & A session with the audience will follow the presentation. 

Film
The panel will be introduced by a short film on Primo Levi by Cynthia Madansky. Images and footage for the film have been provided by the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and RAI Teche. Read more
























THANKS
Centro Primo Levi is the recipient of the endowment fund established by the Viterbi Family in memory of Achille and Maria Viterbi. CPL's activities are supported by the Cahnman Foundation, Peter S. Kalikow, Claude Ghez, David Berg Foundation, John Elkann, Charles Hallac z'l & Sarah Keil Wolf, Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet.