Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was a Russian Jewish immigrant to France who achieved a brilliant career as a novelist during the 1930s but was deported as a “foreign Jew” in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. Némirovsky’s tragic fate mirrors that of many assimilated Jews in Europe who had abandoned Jewish religious practice (sometimes to the point of conversion to Christianity), only…
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Primo Levi Center invited Rabbi Richetti from Italy to perform a selection of religious songs.
BOOK LAUNCH Inside the Antisemitic Mind: The Language of Jew Hatred in Contemporary Germany With co-author Dr. Jehuda Reinharz. The violence of contemporary anti-Semitism is revealed in this profound study of language. Reserve tickets here.
Centro Primo Levi, in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Library of Congress and The Jewish Museum, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, as part of the Carnegie Hall festival La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic, presents a roundtable discussion on Venice’s 500-year-old Jewish ghetto. This event takes place…