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Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

An excellent a**lysis by Marianne Hirsch. Thank you!

Rethinking Holocaust Memory after October 7 “Why continue to teach the Holocaust? Why continue to build and visit Holocaust memorials and museums?”

On this day. Mahzor (Rothschild Mahzor), Florence, 1490

"Sweetness drops
From your lips, O bride;
Honey and milk
Are under your tongue;
And the scent of your robes
Is like the scent of Lebanon."

Join us today for the screening of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and a Q& A with David Forgacs (NYU)

The Battle of Algiers Conversation with David Forgacs (NYU), Q & A moderated by Na’ama Keha This program is presented by the American Sephardi Federation

We are excited to invite you to a night in honor of Iraqi-born Israeli author and human rights activist, Sami Michael.
A collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation, this event is part of the New York Sephardi Jewish Film Festival.
On June 9th, in the Center for Jewish History, we will read some of Michael's texts, screen an interview, and have a discussion with historian צבי בן-דור בנית

Michael's absence is doubly felt in these moments, and we'd love for you to come and learn about his work, or share the impact it had on you.

For more information, please visit the link below:
https://nysjff.com/title-item/a-tribute-to-sami-michael-ah/

🎶Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of “SONGS & STORIES” with Sephardic Shoah survivor and native Ladino speaker Stella Levi! ✨ At 101 years young, Stella’s remarkable journey from Rhodes to Auschwitz to America, is immortalized in three films and The New York Times bestseller “One Hundred Saturdays” with Michael Frank.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of resilience, survival, and hope from a living legend in conversation with Natalia Indrimi of Centro Primo Levi NY.

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✨ Screening Day: 07 June, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: Center For Jewish History
📆 Film Festival Dates: 02-09 June

Please Join us on June 3 at 3:00 pm for a screening of Gillo Pontecorvo's classic The Battle of Algiers followed by a conversation with David Forgacs (NYU). Don't miss it!

The Battle of Algiers Conversation with David Forgacs (NYU), Q & A moderated by Na’ama Keha This program is presented by the American Sephardi Federation

Join us on Thursday May 30 at 7pm for a special program on Persian Jewish music and liturgy and its connection to Byzantine and Italian cultures. Scholar Alan Niku will explore the musical traditions of the Jews of Iran and surrounding countries, examining their music and liturgy, past and present, and traveling through the historical, cultural and aural geography that connects it to Byzantine and Italian cultures. RSVP to [email protected]

This presentation is part of Centro Primo Levi's work on the Italian Chazanut and the Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music created by the Centro Internazionale Leo Levi.

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BUT LOVE IS STRONGER - MAY 18 & 19, 2024

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Saturday, May 18 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 19 at 3:00 PM

Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 9th Avenue

✱ But Love Is Stronger, by Lukáš Janata

Setting texts by Brontë, Cummings, and others, fast-rising Czech composer Lukáš Janata explores themes of passage and transformation in BUT LOVE IS STRONGER. Commissioned by Cantori New York, we present the world premiere with string quintet, countertenor, and percussion.

✱ The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, by Vittorio Rieti

First presented in 1948 by the New York City Ballet, Vittorio Rieti brings the Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’ Medici to the stage in THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Performed with piano, soprano, and baritone.

Cantori New York A New York choir performing contemporary classical music, whose mission is to commission new composers and revive exceptional yet obscure works.

President Sergio Mattarella pays homage to Stella Levi on her 101 birthday. Metropolitan Club, New York. Thank you!

Redemption Blues, a film about the onerous legacy of the Holocaust, begins where conventional Shoah narratives leave off and traces a path forward, exploring redemption through the second generation’s point of view. At a time when the last members of the survivor generation are bidding us farewell, and historical witnessing cannot endure, Redemption Blues engages with emotional and political vestiges that are yet to be resolved.
The film is presented as an artistic reckoning and a deeply personal journey into the future of living with the legacy of the Holocaust. The perspectives of survivors and the guiding narrative of the filmmaker are woven into a stream of music that runs from nostalgia and religious sources into an ocean of free, improvisational creation. Could this be a way forward, given the many spiritual and political fallacies?

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Madison Square Garden, 1944. Dedicated to our selective memory.

Toscanini dirige l'Internazionale Il 25 maggio 1944 Arturo Toscanini diresse un concerto di beneficenza per la Croce Rossa al Madison Square Garden di New York dirige l'Internazionale, il più...

SHABBAT SHALOM. May you hear beautiful songs, and have a wonderful weekend.

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The Interview - We need an ethics of comparison - medico international Questions for Michael Rothberg

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The diaries of a Jewish resistance fighter in German-occupied Italy In the late 1920s Turin became a centre for Jewish culture, and foremost among the families involved was that of Emilio Artom, a teacher of mathematics,

Join us for an evening of reading and conversation.

The Pain of Others. Reflections on a text. Centro Primo Levi's book talks at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, 132 Delancey Street, 2nd fl. (entrance on Norfolk Street. There

Magazzino Italian Art, in collaboration with the Centro Primo Levi in New York, presented Art After War, a program spotlighting the resilient legacy of the Mazzetti sisters. Born in Rome in 1927, Paola and Lorenza Mazzetti witnessed the murder of their adoptive family—the Jewish cousins of scientist Albert Einstein— in August 1944, an event that profoundly shaped their artistic journey. Their lives became a testament to resilience and an exploration of trauma through a diverse range of creative expressions encompassing painting, filmmaking, writing, and psychoa**lysis.

Art After War: Paola and Lorenza Mazzetti A program spotlighting the resilient legacy of the Mazzetti sisters, for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Inaugura al Memoriale della Shoah di Milano la mostra After Images, un ambizioso progetto in collaborazione con il Centro Primo Levi di New York. La mostra trasporta il visitatore in un altro momento nella storia, al 3 agosto 1944, quando la storia della famiglia Einstein Mazzetti entra nella Grande Storia, e le vicende del popolo ebraico, dei gruppi valdesi, dei partigiani, si ritrovano in un piccolo angolo di Toscana.

MOSTRA | After Images – L’eccidio della famiglia Einstein Mazzetti: risonanze visive – Memoriale della Shoah di Milano La mostra – Inaugura al Memoriale della Shoah di Milano la mostra After Images, un ambizioso progetto in collaborazione con il Centro Primo Levi di New York. La mostra trasporta il visitatore in un altro momento nella storia, al 3 agosto 1944, quando la storia della famiglia Einstein Mazzetti entr...

Thank you to everybody who joined us for Art After War: Paola and Lorenza Mazzetti. Here are a couple of snaps from the event.

Photos by Alexa Hoyer