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What the Allies Knew

March 23, 5:30 pm @ the Italian Academy at Columbia Film screening: What the Allies Knew (2015) by Virginie Linhart, produced by Cinetevè, historical supervision by Henry...

Shalom Aleichem: Francis’ Message at Rome’s Synagogue

Gennaro Matino

Pope Francis recently paid a visit to Rome’s Synagogue. That is the third time one of Peter’s Successors has visited the capital’s Tempio Maggiore, after John Paul II in...

World Peace: The View From Israel. Tikkun Olam

Francesco Maria Talò*

Roughly eight hundred years since he journeyed to the Middle East, Saint Francis’ message remains firm for its universal appeal, as do the region’s ties to Italy.

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos

On the occasion of the Remembrance Day, i-Italy publishes again this interview released on 27th January 2009. An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of...

Introducing J-Italy

N.L.

This new platform provides a dynamic guide to both historical and contemporary Jewish Italy, allowing viewers to explore, at their own pace, the cultural treasures of the most...

The Fire that Changed America

ALICE BONVICINI

One hundred years ago the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 innocent workers and galvanized the conscience of an entire city

Cappuccino with Tullia Zevi

Maria Rita Latto

Tullia Zevi died Saturday at the age of 92. She was one of the historic post-war leaders of Italy's Jews and the only woman to ever hold the post of president of the country's...

"My Husband was Jewish, but I am Italian and Catholic". Remembering Ann Malamud

Andrea Malaguti

A few years ago I unexpectedly got acquainted -- for too short a time -- with Anna Giuseppina di Chiara (1917-2007), widow of the writer Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), who could...

Anti-Semitism in the United States: When and Why

Marina Melchionda

On January 29 at the Italian Academy at Columbia University Professor Ira Katznelson offered a dissertation on the causes and circumstances that led to the rise of xenophobia in...

Return to Naples. The Power of Family, History and Memory

Stanislao Pugliese*

A work that treats of two aspects of modern Italian culture not familiar through the tourist industry image of Italy: Jewish culture in Naples and the 1960s divorced from the...

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos Soria

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...

Italian, American & Jewish

Ottorino Cappelli

Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY): "As an Italian in the US you were automatically identified as a Catholic;...

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