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Primo Levi

On Translating and Being Translated

Held in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Center for Fiction. Reading and conversation on On Translating and Being...

IAWA-West Welcomes Canadian author Caterina Edwards and Fred Misurella on Saturday, July 11, 2015 @ Cornelia St. Cafe

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Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the month. IAWA East is held even months at Sidewalk Café and IAWA West...

Primo Levi, the Scientist

Benedetta Grasso

The Annual Primo Levi Forum is approaching with an interesting look at the scientific works of the famous Italian Holocaust survivor. Natalia Indrimi, the Director of Centro Primo...

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...

Citizen Rosi, a Film Retrospective of Political Modernism

Gabrielle Pati

BAM, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and Cinecittà Luce, presents the gems and lesser known works of Italy’s modernist master of political...

Remembering Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Italian and Jewish Immigrants Unite

Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

On March 29th, Hasia R. Diner arrived at the John D. Calandra Institute to speak about the compelling relationship between Italian and Jewish immigrants in New York City. Her...

New Voices on Primo Levi: Andrea Liberovici

Benedetta Grasso

During the 4th International Symposium “New Voices on Primo Levi”, the Italian artist Andrea Liberovici will present his multimedia performance The Transparency of the Word,...

Primo Levi Symposium: Reflecting On The Holocaust

Susannah Gold

Primo Levi Symposium: A Moment of Reflection On the Life and Works of this Great Writer. Some Thoughts On Being A Foreign Jew In Modern Italy

Misunderstanding Primo Levi

Ernesto Ferrero*

Within the catastrophe of the Shoah, humanity was fortunate that the train leaving Italy for Auschwitz in February 1944 was transporting a special envoy: an anthropologist not yet...

Curtain falls on "Voices on Primo Levi"

MARINA MELCHIONDA

Great success for the Centro Primo Levi Annual Symposium: an embracing event that led us all through the works, life, and thoughts of the famous Italian Jewish writer and chemist

Primo Levi. If This is (Only) a Narrator

MARINA MELCHIONDA

A chemist, a witness or a narrator? Levi, a controversial and multifaceted figure unconventionally analyzed in the first two sessions of the “Voices on Primo Levi” event. The...

Remembering Italian Shoah

In the year 2000, January 27, the day on which, in 1945, the Soviet army entered and liberated Auschwitz, was chosen by Italy and other European countries to commemorate the...

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