Festival Neue Literatur brings New York audiences new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, as the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction. The 2018 festival invites our authors to tackle questions of identity and belonging in a fracturing Europe and beyond, using race, religion, immigration, status, politics, and even football hooliganism as lenses to…
Welcoming remarks: Consul General of Italy, Francesco Genuardi Alessandra Stanley, journalist, and former New York Times bureau chief in Rome and Moscow, Mario Calvo-Platero, writer and columnist for La Stampa, in conversation with the author, Alain Elkann and Giorgio Barba Navaretti on history, memory, and family. Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist Alain Elkann follows the flight from fascist Italy of an…
Sephardic music from the 16th to the 20th centuries, by Alonso Mudarra, Wolf Simoni, Alberto Hemsi, Roberto Pla, Zhul Levy, and Paul Ben-Haim, performed by Heather Buck, soprano; Janice Meyerson, mezzo soprano; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello; Lorne Richstone, piano; with commentary by Dr. Raymond Scheindlin. Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 ASJM/AJHS/ASF/CJH members; $9 seniors, students at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444 Tickets: Available online