New York Stories: Gianna Pontecorboli In front of the fireplace of the “Stanze italiane”, Vincenzo Pascale interviews the journalist Gianna Pontecorboli on her new book “America nuova terra promessa” (“America the New Promised Land”, Francesco Brioschi Editore), also translated into English by the Primo Levi Center of New York. The book tells the story of the Italian Jews who, after the promulgation of
The Ghetto of Venice In Venice, which in 2021 will be 1600 years old since its foundation, one of the first Jewish quarters in Europe was born in 1516, the first one to be called ghetto. Today it is a lively and busy district of the city where there still are some Jewish religious and administrative institutions and five synagogues. In the Stoà
The “Jewish Italian Elegy” The history of the Jews is deeply and sometimes dramatically intertwined with the history of Europe and in particular with the history of Italy. On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, the director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Fabio Finotti, invites you to listen in the Stoà of the “Stanze italiane” to the “Jewish-Italian Elegy”,
