A Film by Judy Kreith and Robin Truesdale NY Premiere Screening, post-screening Q&A featuring the filmmakers and a special performance of Cuban music from the film by The Pablo Moya Trio. Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels was born of the tales Marion Kreith told her daughter, co-director Judy Kreith. Marion escaped war-torn Europe as a young girl with her family, evading Nazi capture…
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This program is organized through a partnership between Centro Primo Levi and the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies. It is held at the Italian Academy and is meant for students and faculty. Reservation is required. Visit the Seminar’s webpage for details. Luca Fenoglio (Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester). Respondent: Susan Zuccotti (author of Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue and Holocaust…
The Treasonous Irish: Vigilantes, Conspiracies and the Mainstream Press, 1917-1918 In this nineteenth annual Ernie O’Malley lecture, Mick Mulcrone, Emeritus Associate Professor at University of Portland, delivers “The Treasonous Irish: Vigilantes, Conspiracies and the Mainstream Press, 1917-1918”. During World War I, editions of five Irish-American newspapers were barred from the mail by the United States Post Office. Two newspapers and…
Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a screening of Karski & The Lords of Humanity, a partially animated documentary about a member of the Polish underground during World War II. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer and director Sławomir Grünberg. Run time: 72 minutes Language: English Karski & The Lords of Humanity is…