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April 24, 2009
Paul Ginsborg. A Professor as a Friend
i-Italy met with Paul Ginsborg at New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli- Marimò. It was a unique opportunity to reflect on Italian democracy and the threats it currently...
March 9, 2009
Parlando con Moni Ovadia, un ebreo scomodo. "Per seguir virtute e conoscenza"
Moni Ovadia, ebreo di origine bulgara, è attore teatrale, cantante, compositore, scrittore italiano. E' un lucido intellettuale dei giorni nostri a volte considerato "scomodo"....
March 5, 2009
"Pasticciotto a Obama". Arriva a New York una storia tutta da raccontare
Mastro Angelo ed il suo assitente Andrea inventano un nuovo dolce. Nel giro di pochi giorni tutto il loro paese vuole assaggiare "Il Pasticciotto a Obama". Una versione del...
February 13, 2009
Yes We Can. Yes He Can. Jovanotti's Glocal Music
Why Jovanotti? Why introduce Lorenzo Cherubini, a.k.a. Lorenzo Jovanotti, to a younger (and not so young) generation of Italian-Americans (and not only Italian-Americans)? Why...
February 1, 2009
Nedo, Andrea & Talia
La Guardia Family
An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of Directors of the Primo Levi Center (NYC). He is the son of Nedo Fiano, an Auschwitz survivor, and the father of...
December 2, 2008
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio. Interview with Amara Amara Lakhous
A recent discussion with Amara Lakhous in New York is more of an exchange of ideas than an interview. We are convinced that his novel Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in...
July 5, 2008
Il mio ricordo di Rocco
Prima di tutto il suo sorriso aperto, quello che mi ha accolto insieme ad un ottimo caffè napoletano preparato da lui stesso nella sua cucina. Era il 2006, ed era la prima volta...
June 13, 2008
Two Lives Through Italian Culture
Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli Marimò founded the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at New York University in honor of her husband, industrialist and intellectual Guido Zerilli Marimò....
June 13, 2008
The Language of Ugo, Alexander & Sam
Interview with Alexander Stille. Author and journalist Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. Stille’s father, Ugo, was...
April 10, 2008
When Italian-American Theater Becomes Universal
When Italian-American theater becomes universal: the exquisite monologue by Antoinette LaVecchia on the relationship between an Italian mother and her Americanized daughter as...
February 23, 2008
'Pane Amaro:' The Bitter World of Italian Americans
A scene form Gianfranco Norelli's 'Pane Amaro', produced by RAI
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) presents “Pane Amaro,” a documentary film by Gianfranco Norelli representing a rare tribute to...
February 15, 2008
“You Who Live Securely in Your Warm Homes…”
Left Rodi, 1930. Right The main gate at Auschwitz, through which an estimated two million victims of Nazi genocide passed
The screening of the film L’isola delle rose: La tragedia di un paradiso (Island of Roses: The Tragedy of a Paradise) written and directed by Rebecca Samonà was accompanied by...
