MARCH 28, 2016 - 06:00 PM. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 24 - West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011
In collaboration with the Primo Levi Center. Americordo: The Italian Jewish Exiles in America (2015, CPL Editions) by Gianna Pontecorboli. Translators: Marianne Lignana Rosenberg and Steven Baker. Guest speaker: Judge Guido Calabresi

Pontecorboli's book is a long overdue account of a lesser-known aspect of the Italian anti-Jewish persecution: the exile of Italian Jews to America. Forced to the US by the Fascist persecutions during the 1930's and 1940's, roughly two thousand Italian Jews landed in America and continued their work in a wide range of fields, from mathematics and biology to medicine, music, banking, textile manufacturing, art and antiques. Pontecorboli retraces the threads of their stories, their strategies to exit Italy, find a visa to the US and their first steps in the new world. In ENGLISH.

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