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Jazz music has a long history and many influences. With Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (available February from Cambridge University Press, $44.99), Anna Harwell Celenza examines the Italian influences on the development of American popular music. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of Worl...

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Orazio, a retired curriculum coordinator, teacher, and coach of twenty-seven years, has completed his new book "I Never Knew We Were Poor": a journey of streaming consciousness backward and forward between the man he is today, and the path that lead him to writing his book. "Many people can empathize with the deplorable conditions described in the...

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Terzo appuntamento a Nettuno con “Per Bacco che Libro”, la rassegna letteraria organizzata dall’Associazione culturale 00042 insieme a Cantina Bacco e alla Scuola chitarristica di Antonio D’Augello. Oggi pomeriggio giovedì 16 febbraio, dalle ore 16.30 alle 19.00, nella location di Cantina Bacco (via Eschieto 1 – ex via cisterna km 1- Nettuno), verr...

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When: February 21, 2017 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM - Where: At the Library of Congress The Law Library of Congress will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice with the program “Understanding Seclusion: the Legal Dimensions of the Ghetto”, which is in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Inst...

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Embassy of Italy - Auditorium. 3000 Whitehaven Street NW. Washington, DC 20008. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. February 24, 2017 DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM AND CLOSE AT 6:55PM. PLEASE NOTE: RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH EVENTBRITE. NO PHONE OR EMAIL RSVP AVAILABLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING. The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Instit...

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When: February 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm- Where: Montclair State University, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ, USA 07043, Montclair, NJ 07043. RSVP by Feb. 21st on Inserra Website Join us for a book presentation by Joseph Sciorra. Joseph Sciorra’s Built with Faith offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New Yo...

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When: Sunday, Feb. 19 | 5 p.m. - Where: Heinz History Center’s Detre Library & Archives Costs: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students, military, Mondo Italiano and History Center members  Inspired by the 100th anniversary of World War I, an army of musicians will transform the letters of soldiers from the war from pain into art. This original progra...

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Most books that are good are also useful as a result, and vice versa. Sadly, The Pope of Physics – a biography of the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi that is written in a style as flat and dry as the Mojave – is an exception. Its goodness is difficult to find but its usefulness is immediately apparent. No other biography of Fermi is as auth...

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As a community, Italian Americans are just beginning to understand the value of the written word.  For years publishers have been saying that the Italian American is not the target audience for most books--they don't buy books because they don't read.  However, there is something happening to Italian/American culture that is changing this stereotyp...

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Il Gruppo di Lettura nasce con l’idea di creare uno spazio e un luogo di scambio per persone amanti della lingua e della lettura italiana. I partecipanti leggono, ognuno per proprio conto, il libro scelto per poi riunirsi successivamente per condividere la lettura discutendo il libro letto. Lo scopo del gruppo è di esercitarsi con la lingua italian...

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