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ANSA: Nel West Village rivive la storia degli ebrei di Rodi
omaggio a Stella Levi, che usci’ viva da Auschwitz Alessandro Baldini for ANSA Cultura In una vecchia “carriage house” nel cuore del West Village torna a vivere la comunità ebraica di Rodi sterminata...
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La Voce di New York: “Los Corassones Avlan”: a New York i cuori antichi degli...
La storia sconosciuta di una piccola comunità millenaria distrutta dal nazismo nell’isola delle rose: la mostra del Centro Primo Levi fino al 24 novembre. Gianna Pontecorboli for La Voce di New York Il...
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Times of Israel: In the heart of NY, pop-up education center revives...
Near Washington Square Park through November 24, a living memorial dedicated to a 2,000-year-old Jewish community is manned by a spitfire nonagenarian survivor. Jordan Hoffman for The Times of Israel...
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Dramatic reading launches the English translation of Efratia Gitai’s...
November 11, 2019 – On Sunday, November 24th at 6 pm, following a week’s engagement at London’s Coronet Theatre, of director Amos Gitai’s A Letter to a friend in Gaza, Amos Gitai and The Coronet...
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Woman Around Town: Eleanor Foà’s Poignant Memoir About Her Italian Jewish Family
By Charlene Giannetti for Woman Around Town “To a child growing up in WASP America, with parents who had funny accents, feeling good about being an Italian Jew was a great gift. But like many gifts of...
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The New York Times: She Grew Up on a Remote Italian Island. Then Came the...
Recalling the once-vibrant Jewish life in prewar Rhodes, an island in the Mediterranean. By Michael Frank for The New York Times. Four years ago, while researching the war years in Italy, I was...
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Haaretz: From Rhodes With Love: Memories of Jewish Life on the Greek Island...
In unconventional exhibit, the public is encouraged not only to touch the displays but to converse with Stella Levi, a 96-year-old Jewish native of the island that was occupied by the Nazis in World...
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Centro Primo Levi Editions to launch Efratia Gitai: Correspondence 1929–1994...
Contact: Rebecca Samonà: rebecca.samona@primolevicenter.org New York, NY, January 27th, 2020 – Centro Primo Levi Editions is pleased to announce the English language publication of Efratia Gitai:...
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I.Italy: The Life of a “Foreign Italian”
Leo Yeni, an Artist’s Paper Life, presented by NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi showcases the life and struggles of a man through his art. To some, the show,...
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Efratia Gitai: Correspondence (1929-1994) Selected & edited by Rivka Gitai Translated by Timothy Aaron Priest Born in 1909 in Haifa to Russian Zionist parents, Efratia Gitai was “the eldest...
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The Oral History Center: Los Corassones Avlan
We all have stories in our archives. We know it is best to bring the stories out, for people to hear and see them. But how? One idea: Involve the narrator, maybe she or he will have an idea....
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Jewish Book Council: Book Review of Mixed Messages
The Jewish community of Italy is over two thousand years old, and yet, when Eleanor Foa’s father tried to explain their Italian Jewish heritage, it was always a struggle. By Jonathan Fass for...
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Exile and Creativity Translated by Alta L. Price. Exile and Creativity is a collection of essays from a program series held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro...
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Los Corassones Avlan
Conversations on Jewish Life on the Island of Rhodes. A pop-up installation to discover, discuss and imagine. Press contact: loscorassones.press@primolevicenter.org New York, NY – September 24, 2019 –...
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Reluctant Jews Translated by Jeremy Moyle Rather than going in search of his Jewish roots, Sandro Gerbi focuses on the reverse process: the gradual secularization of his family during the twentieth...
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Reluctant Jews
PROLOGUE Sandro Gerbi Sandro Gerbi (Lima,1943), a historian and journalist, is the author, among other works, of: Tempi di malafede, Guido Piovene ed Eugenio Colorni, Comisso Award (Turin:...
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