Sessioni di Italian-Jewish Studies, al convegno dell' American Association of Italian Studies

Ecco il programma definitivo delle sessioni di Italian Jewish Studies, inclusi i due concerti. Ho indicato una presentazione che mi interessa-- ho scritto sull'Ozpetek e come rappresenta il ghetto romano... e anche sulle visione morantiane dell'Olocausto...

Giovedì, 3 maggio

Italian Jews in the Mediterranean World
Chair: Marco Di Giulio, Franklin & Marshall College

• Igor H. de Souza (University of Chicago): "Jewish Philosophy in 13th-Century Italy: Between Isolation and Collaboration"
• Vadim Putzu (Hebrew Union College, Franklin & Marshall College): "The Leviathan… may be digested through wine: Menachem Azariah of Fano’s Symbolism of Wine between Safed and Italy"
• Pamela J. Dorn Sezgin (Gainesville State College): "Los Frangos: Italian Jews as Agents of Modernity in the Late Ottoman Diaspora"

Jews in Italy between Pride and Prejudice 
Chair:Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University

• Marco Di Giulio (Franklin & Marshall College): "Reclaiming Hebrew Studies: Language and National Pride in Nineteenth-Century Italian Scholarship"
• Risa Sodi (Yale University): "Fascism and the Italian Roots of Racialism"
• L. Scott Lerner (Franklin & Marshall College): "The Narrating Architecture of the Catholic-Jewish Relation"

Concert: “Voices of the Italian Holocaust”

Caroline Helton (University of Michigan), soprano

Kathryn Goodson (University of Michigan), pianist

Venerdì, 4 maggio

Musical Portraits of Jews in Fascist Italy 

Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

Jesse Rosenberg (Northwestern University): "L'ebraismo sulla scena operistica in Italia nel ventennio fascista"

Aloma Bardi (University of Florence, Italy; Internazional Center for American Music): "Musical Exoticism of Jewish Folklore in Il dibuk by Renato Simoni and Lodovico Rocca (1934)"

The two papers will be followed by a panel discussion with the performers of the concerts.

Zionism, Judaism, and the Holocaust Survivors 

Chair: Risa Sodi, Yale University

• Giuseppe Prigiotti (Duke University): "Zionism in La Civiltà Cattolica during the Fascist Ventennio (1922-43)"
• Wiley Feinstein (Loyola University Chicago): “Alaska Rather Than Palestine: The Problem of Italian Jewish Aversion to-Zionism in Major Narratives of the Shoah”
• Jonathan Druker (Illinois State University): "On Levi’s Alterations to the Second Edition of Se questo è un uomo: Integrating Testimony and Commemoration"

Sabato, 5 maggio

Memory and Contemporaneity of Judaism 

Chair: L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College

• Mattia Beghelli (University of Michigan): “La tragicità della sopravvivenza: da sopravvissuti a vittime”.
• Luca Peretti (Yale University): "Identità, memoria e spazio urbano nel Ghetto di Roma: dalla Morante e Özpetek fino a monumenti e targhe commemorative"
• Melissa Coburn (Virginia Tech): "Metaphors of Identification and of Otherness: Antisemitism and the Double in Umberto Eco's Il cimitero di Praga"

Lecture-Recital (as an additional session) - "Leaves of Grass: The Whitman Songs by Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco"

John Champagne (Bard College), lecturer

Salvatore Champagne (Oberlin College), tenor

Howard Lubin (Oberlin College), pianist

The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion.