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Posts tagged as “Venice”

Round Table: The Ghetto, Venice and the Jews. A Historical Journey

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…

Sirens of La Serenissima: Creative Women and Feminist Forerunners in Early Modern Venice

Panel discussion. This event is part of La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic, a citywide celebration of Venice organized by Carnegie Hall (February 3 – 21). This roundtable discussion on the remarkable tradition of early modern Venetian women’s writing features readings from works penned by courtesan Veronica Franco; dissident Baroque nun Arcangela Tarabotti; outspoken Jewish author, poet, and…

Rav Elia Richetti: The Italian Chazanut Roundtable

Ashkenazi Songs From the North of Italy, with Rav Elia Richetti and Dr. Francesco Spagnolo. Each year, Centro Primo Levi invites a guest cantor to lead a ceremony of music and singing from the Italian and Mediterranean Jewish traditions. This program features one of Italy’s leading cantors, Rabbi Elia Richetti, performing a selection of Ashkenazi synagogue songs from an array of Jewish…