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27 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Shabbat Shalom online concert in Istanbul

“Shabbat Shalom”, an online concert of the duo Delilah Gutman and Refael Negri, will be held today, 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, following an initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul and CIDIM (Italian National Committee of Music). “Shabbat Shalom” explores, through the lyrics and tradition of Yemenite, Sephardic and Klezmer songs from […]

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27 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: commemoration ceremony held in Park Avenue, New York

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Italy’s Consulate General in New York hosted the traditional ceremony – organised alongside Centro Primo Levi – during which the names of the Italian deportees are read out. This year too the event was held on the sidewalk of Park Avenue, just outside the Consulate and […]

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27 January 2022

Remembrance Day: Tokyo hosts a concert and a film screening

The Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo celebrated Holocaust Remembrance Day with a concert and the screening of the film ‘’1938. Quando scoprimmo di non essere più italiani’’, by director Pietro Suber. The concert is a journey into the Klezmer music culture and Yiddish songs, a genre that vaunts a four-century-old history and having travelled through […]

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26 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Stranger and the influence of Primo Levi

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Oslo presents Simon Stranger’s book ‘’Leksikon om lys og mørke – Il solo modo per dirsi addio’’ to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The book narrates the story of a Jewish family, who after the war decided to move into the house of Nazi Henry Rinnan, where he […]

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26 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Belgrade hosts a conference entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible.”

To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Belgrade hosts an online debate entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible: interpreting the Remembrance of the Shoah through documents and projects. A dialogue between architecture and history.“   Guido Morpurgo and Milovan Pisarri will discuss the topic, with contributions by Ambassador […]

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26 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: online conversation in Lyon with Edith Bruck

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lyon organised an online meeting with author Edith Bruck, whose book Il Pane Perduto (The Lost Bread) – which describes her deportation to Auschwitz – has just been translated into French. The webinar was attended, aside from the author, by René De […]

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25 January 2022

Beirut, May al Khalil was awarded the Star of Italy

The Ambassador of Italy to the Lebanon, Nicoletta Bombardiere, awarded the honour ofKnight of the Order of the Star of Italy to May al Khalil, founder and President of the Beirut Marathon Association, in recognition of her contribution to the development and promotion of sport as an instrument for prosperity and resilience of the Lebanese society. […]

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25 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day in San Francisco, a film on Moshe Bejski

The documentary film that tells the story of Moshe Bejski, the man who for many years was the President of the Israeli Commission in charge of preserving the memory of those who helped save the lives of Jews during the Shoah, will be screened by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco from 27 January to […]

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25 January 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day in São Paulo, a documentary film by Giorgio Treves

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo will make available in streaming, with English subtitles, the docufilm “1938: Diversi” by Giorgio Treves, from 27 January to 25 February. The docufilm tells what the promulgation of the racial laws meant for Italian Jews and how both the Jewish and non-Jewish […]

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25 January 2022

“Orfeo” opens the Italian cultural season in Zagreb

The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Pierfrancesco Sacco, opened the 2022 Italian cultural season with “Orfeo”, an opera by Nicola Porpora and performed at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. After its world premiere in Vienna on 22 January last, the opera has travelled to Zagreb thanks to the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in […]

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25 January 2022

Tehran: on show the best of Italian design

The Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, opened the preview of “Domus Design – Teheran 2022”, the international exhibition of Italo-Iranian design to be hosted in the Iranian capital from mid-March. The exhibition draws inspiration from the “Domus Design” exhibition that took place in Teheran in 1975 at the initiative of the Milan-based magazine which […]

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24 January 2022

Holocaust Day. Hong Kong hosts Klezmer concert

Marking January 27’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong is to host a Klezmer music and Yiddish song concert. Guest performers include sax player and leading contemporary Klezmer musician Gabriele Coen, pianist Pietro Lussu and, with three feature performances, singer Barbara Eramo. Seeking […]

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