Does being authentic make it better?
by Mike Riccetti The word "authentic" is used often by people describing a restaurant they like and used very often in the food press; badly misused I would say by inexperienced or uninformed writers. Whether or not it is used accurately, does authenticity really matter? The question of authenticity, especially when it came to Ita...
Italian Names You'll Want to Grab Right Now
by Tessa Boyce Buongiorno! Are you someone with Italian roots who would like to keep the tradition going in your family? Do you just love the sound of Italian names or have memories of a lovely trip there? MooseRoots collected data from the Social Security Administration, as well as Oxford University Press to find the top 25 Italian names trending...
2016 Coming to America: The Malvizzi family
By Mario Malvizzi My coming to America took place in a kind of roundabout manner. I was born in Pittsburgh in 1930, but because of the untimely death of my father, Mario, my mother, Maria, along with me, at 6 months old, and my sister, 5, returned to Italy to be with my mother's family. She had emigrated to America in 1920 and married my fath...
What Happened to Joe Pesci – News & Updates
Joe Pesci is one of the most famous character actors in film history. He is most-known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro in Ragging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino. Early Life Joe Pesci was born on February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were both Italian-Americans. Pesci discovered his passion for acti...
Italy was unlikely protector of Shoa Jews
by Debra Rubin On one of her annual trips as a young girl to visit her great-grandparents in their small, mostly Catholic village of Campagna Italy, Elizabeth Bettina saw a photograph, taken in 1940, of an Orthodox rabbi sitting on the steps of a church. Curiosity about that photo — it seemed strange to her that an obviously Jewis...
Dreams come true for Italian Airman
Sono un aviatore Americano. When translated, these words represent the bridge between two disparate lives for Dimas Bernacchia - the life of an Italian immigrant and the life of an American Airman. Born in the city of Senigallia, Italy, Bernacchia spent much of his childhood traversing Europe and the Italian peninsula. His father, Giulio B...
President Obama Honors Claudio Pellegrini with Enrico Fermi Award
Claudio Pellegrini, a visiting scientist and consulting professor at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, will receive the 2014 Enrico Fermi Award for his role in laying the scientific groundwork for the X-ray free-electron laser. ...
Is Your Favorite Italian American Actor Really of Italian Decent, or Just a Convincing Actor?
by Cookie Curci As much as I would have loved to include every Italian American actor in show business, there was no way I could include everyone in this article. To see their names and listings of all these great Italian american actors please go to this website www.imdb.com/list/ls051384748/ TRUE ITALIAN AMERICAN ACTOR.... Alan Alda...
Charlie Stillitano is man behind Euro Super League idea...but who is he?
CHARLIE STILLITANO is the best-connected American in European football. He is good friends with Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid head honcho Florentino Perez and super agent Jorge Mendes. Ex-Chelsea boss Mourinho says of the co-founder and chairman of Relevent Sports: "I call Charlie 'Mr Zero Mistakes' be...
Ronald DeLuca, Ad Man Who Helped Revive Iacocca’s Chrysler, Dies at 91
by Sam Roberts Ronald DeLuca, who orchestrated the advertising campaign that spared the Chrysler Corporation from insolvency in the 1980s and transformed Lee Iacocca, the ailing automaker's voluble chief executive, into a national brand himself, died on Tuesday in Oneonta, N.Y. He was 91. The cause was complications of myelodysplastic...
Gli italoamericani e l'emigrazione ebraica italiana negli USA
di Gianna Pontecorboli Il Giorno della Memoria come spunto di riflessione per andare piu' lontano e ridefinire molte pagine della storia degli italo-americani? Questa e' la sfida che Fraser Ottanelli ha lanciato al Calandra Institute della City University di New York durante uno degli eventi newyorkesi dedicati al ricordo della Shoah....
IASA - Call for papers for Traversea Vol. 4
Traversea, a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal is dedicated to the publication of research in transatlantic history. Transatlantic history pertains to the interconnectedness of human experience and cross-cultural encounters of Europe, Africa, and the Americas (North and South) from 1500 to the present. It is inherently interdiscip...