February 22
5:00 pm
Kehila Kedosha Janina
280 Broome Street

Free and open to the public
 
The Italian Chazanut Roundtable: Ashkenazi Songs From the North of Italy

Rav Elia Richetti and Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Berkeley)

The Italian Chazanut Roudtable is a project of Italian Jewish music and liturgy established in memory of Erna Finci Viterbi z'l, whose love for tradition and dedication to learning have profoundly contributed to shape the center's principles. 

This year, the Roundtable is held in collaboration with Kehilah Kedosha Janina. Refreshment will be served after the program.   Read

Printed Matter
 
Venice and its Minorities 

Benjamin Ravid (Reprinted by permission of the publisher from: B. Ravid, A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797, Brill 2013)

Many factors combined to attract to Venice not only foreign visitors and temporary residents who came for numerous different reasons and stayed for varying lengths of time but also immigrants, thereby making the city one of the most populous in Europe. 

Most basically, helping to account for the large size of the population of Venice were immigrants from the Venetian holdings on the Italian mainland and from its over-seas possessions in the east, which the ottoman empire was gradually conquering, who were naturally attracted to the capital city of Venice because of the very wide range of possibilities that it offered.   Read

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THANKS

Centro Primo Levi is the recipient of the endowment fund established by the Viterbi Family in memory of Achille and Maria Viterbi. CPL's activities are supported by the Cahnman Foundation, Peter S. Kalikow, Claude Ghez, David Berg Foundation, John Elkann, Charles Hallac z'l & Sarah Keil Wolf, Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet, Bruce and Francesca Slovin.