State University at Stony Brook
Center for Italian Studies
present:
The Italian Jewish Experience
October 24-25, 1998
co-sponsored by
Stony Brook's Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education
The National Italian American Foundation,
Order of the Sons of Italy in America
Unico
October 24-25, 1998
Free and Open to the Public
Optional Lunch, Sunday, October 25, is available for a fee of $15.
Reservations Required. (516) 632-7444
Program:
Saturday, October 24
6:30 pm -- Student Union Gallery --Reception
Photographic Exhibit
:
The Roman Ghetto and Other Views of the Eternal City
8 pm -- Commentary and Film Presentation
Details to be Announced
Sunday, October 25, 1998
Student Activity Center -- State University at Stony Brook
8:30 a.m. Auditorium Lobby -- Breakfast, Coffee, and Registration,
9:00 a.m. Auditorium -- Welcome and Greetings
Mario B. Mignone, Director, Center for Italian Studies, SUNY/Stony Brook
Shirley Strum Kenny, President, SUNY/Stony Brook
Senator Kenneth LaValle, New York State Legislature
9:30 a.m., Auditorium -- Session I - Historical Perspective
Chairperson, Assemblyman, Tom Di Napoli, New York State Legislature
Gastone Orefice, Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero, Overview
Roberto Dainotto, Duke University, The Italian Jews in the Risorgimento
Mario Toscano, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Jewish Acculturation: From
Italian Unification to the Advent of Fascism
10:45 a.m., Auditorium Lobby -- Coffee Break
11:00 a.m., Room 302 -- Session II - Focus on Communities: North and
Central Italy
Chairperson, Jacqueline Reich, SUNY/Stony Brook
Steve Siporin, Utah State University, Jewish Italian Folklore: The Way the
Venetian Ghetto is Remembered
Davide Stimilli, Northwestern University, Identity of a Jewish Community in
a Provincial Town: Ancona
Giovanni Magnoli, Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, Historic view of the Jewish
Community in Cremona and Milan
Fabio Della Seta, Author, Rome, Italy, Life and Traditions of the Roman
Ghetto: The Rediscovered Jew
11:00 a.m., Room 306 -- Session III - Focus on Communities: Sicily
Chairperson, Paul Edelson, SUNY/Stony Brook
Salvatore Rotella, President, Riverside Community College, CA, The Jews of
Sicily: Historical Perspective
Salvatore Salerno, Macalester University, Festa dei Giudei, San Fratello,
Sicily.
Gaetano Cipolla, St. John's University, The Jewish Experience in Sicily
12:45 p.m. - Optional Lunch, -- The University Club ($15 per person) -
Reservations Required
2:00 p.m., Room 306 -- Session IV - During the Fascist Era
Chairperson, Eli Seifman, SUNY/Stony Brook
James Walston, Rome International University, Nationalism and
Internationalism: The Response of Italian Jews to Fascism
Philip Cannistraro, Queens College, Mussolini and Fascist Anti-Semitism:
Turning Point of a Regime
Edda Servi Machlin, Author, Child of the Ghetto: Coming of Age in Fascist
Italy
Maria Lombardo, National Italian American, Foundation, The Holocaust in
Southern Europe
2:00 p.m., Room 302 -- Session V - The Holocaust
Chairperson, Robert Hoberman, SUNY/Stony Brook
Sister Margherita Marchione, Emerita, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Jews
and Catholics in Wartime Italy
Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University, Reflections on the Priebke Affair:
On Massacres, Trials, History, and Memory
Jay Sommer, CW Post University, Looking Back on the Holocaust: My Italian
Experience
Harry Kaufmann, Emeritus, CUNY, An Austrian Jew in Fascist and Post-Fascist
Italy: A Loving Memory
4:00 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m., Rm306 -- Session VI - Jewish Experience through Literary
Perspectives
Chairperson, Fred Gardaphe, SUNY/Stony Brook
Fabio Girelli-Carasi, Brooklyn College, Contemporary Jewish Memorialists:
Why Now?
Lucienne Kroha, McGill University, Culture, Politics, and Jewish Psyche in
Novels of Giorgio Bassani
Claudia Nocentini, University of Edinburgh, Interview: Natalia Ginzburg and
her Experience of Confinement
Carolyn Balducci, University of Michigan, Italian-born Jewish American
Author, Arturo Vivante
4:15 p.m. Room 302 -- Session VII - Jews and Italian Americans
Chairperson, Joseph A. Tursi, SUNY/Stony Brook
Vincent Marmorale, OSIA, Commission for Social Justice, Introduction
Walter Wolff and Horst Stein: Survivors of World War II in Italy,
Reflections on the Kindness of Italians Toward the Jews
5:30 p.m. Auditorium Lobby -- Closing Reception
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