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Date/Time
Sunday 01/27/2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
Museo Italo Americano

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Primo Levi and the Holocaust, A Date to Remember
Lecture followed by Wine reception with the Professors

Co-presented with the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies and the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco

The Museo Italo Americano will commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Il giorno della memoria, with a program on Italian Jewish author, chemist, and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, presented by three engaging experts of literature and history, Karen D. Antonelli, Murray Baumgarten, and Peter Kenez. 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Primo Levi’s birth and the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where he was imprisoned.

Dr. Antonelli will discuss three of Primo Levi’s best-known works Se questo è un uomo (If This is a Man, published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz, 1947), its sequel La tregua (The Truce, published in the U.S. as The Reawakening, 1963) and Il sistema periodico (The Periodic Table, 1975). Dr. Baumgarten and Dr. Kenez will speak about the importance of Primo Levi’s life and works to understanding the Holocaust.

Join the Professors for a reception of Piemontese wine and specialties in honor of Torino-born Primo Levi following the lecture.

SPACE IS LIMITED: Get tickets online below, or contact Museo at 415.673.2200 or info@sfmuseo.org

$10 Museo members Advance Ticket
$15 Non-members Advance Ticket
$20 At The Door (space permitting)
College students free with ID

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Karen D. Antonelli, Ph.D. teaches Italian language, literature and film at the Museo Italo Americano. She received both her BA and MA degrees in Italian Literature from Vassar College, and her Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA.

Murray Baumgarten, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature at UC Santa Cruz, the founding director of the Dickens Project, and a founding director of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies.

Peter Kenez, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz, and an historian of the Holocaust. The author of eight books, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has been teaching at UCSC since 1966. He was born in Hungary and is a survivor of Holocaust.

Professors Baumgarten and Kenez together have taught an interdisciplinary class on the Holocaust, the online version of which has reached more than 20,000 people in 60 countries.

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