FEBRUARY 01, 2016. 06:00 PM. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street- New York, NY 10011. Giorno della Memoria in New York is a collaborative initiative of the Consulate General of Italy with Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, CUNY's John Calandra Italian American Institute. Educational events are also held at theScuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi and the Bronx High School of Science. Click here for the complete program of events.

L'eclisse dell'antifascismo: Resistenza, questione ebraica e cultura politica in Italia dal 1943 al 1989 (2015, Laterza), by Manuela Consonni. L'eclisse dell'antifascismo deals with the intersecting of Italian history, anti-fascist paradigm and memory of the resistance and the Shoah. It is in this context that the Jewish world assumed a primary role in the victory against nazism and the establishment of democracy in Italy. The book follows three paths: the political history of the country, the memory of the resistance and of fascism, and the memory of the Jewish deportations and exterminations.

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