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World War II

Mario Fratti Interprets Eduardo De Filippo

Natasha Lardera

Playwright Mario Fratti takes on the work of one of Italy's greatest playwright, actor, author and poet... Eduardo De Filippo. Together with young actress Giulia Bisinella, the...

Must-Reads: The Italian Brothers

Chiara Morucci

Foreign editor of La Stampa Paolo Mastrolilli presents at Calandra Institute his latest work, "The Italian Brothers," a novel inspired by the lives of his father and his uncle...

Keeping Memory Alive

Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

The Primo Levi Center organized an afternoon of commemoration and discussion about the Italian experience during the Holocaust; recognizing those who partook in the Antifascist...

Behind the Lines: Italian Americans Liberating Italy on Secret Missions

Benedetta Grasso

Nancy Schiesari, the director and creator of "Behind The Lines" takes us closer to the protagonists of a fascinating and dangerous series of missions in World War II that linked...

"Vincere": The Hidden Passions of Benito Mussolini

Benedetta Grasso

Director Marco Bellocchio presented his last movie at Casa Italiana in September 2009. Now the time has come for "Vincere" to be released in the United States on March 17 2010

Brava Gente? The Resurgence of the Shopworn Myth of Italian Benevolence During Fascism

Alessandro Cassin

The complex and often contradictory story of what happened to the Jewish population in Italy during World War II is little known to the American public. Elizabeth Bettina’s "It...

Remembering D-Day, Italian American Style

Jerry Krase

  There are many Italian American World War II heroes. Between my wife's family and mine we have about a dozen or so. To name a few: her Uncles Joe, Frank, Anthony, and...

World War II Veteran is Looking For a Job

Damiano Beltrami

Frank Carbone, 87, one of a vanishing breed of World War II Italian American veterans, would like to get a job in the construction sector, where he worked a number of years after...

Becoming Italian American: POWs and National Identity

Laura E. Ruberto

Two national holidays, la Festa della Repubblica and Memorial Day, bring up the question of what it means to belong.

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