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Following the death of her sister Teresa in 1938, Anna La Camera left Paradiso, a hamlet of Milazzo (Messina province), Sicily, and set sail on…
The bestselling poet in modern literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has also been a catalyst for numerous literary careers and an influential counterculture figure. In 1953, he…
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film In the second half of the twentieth century, food, fashion, and film became…
Michael Perino, St. John’s University In the winter of 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression, Ferdinand Pecora took control of a bumbling United States…
The fruit and vegetable gardens behind suburban houses in the New York City metropolitan area offer tantalizing entries into Italian-American horticultural knowledge and skills. The…
In Bitter Greens, Anthony Di Renzo reflects on Italian food, American culture, and globalization. Despite the inclusion of six recipes, the book is not an…
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is happy to present a photographic exhibition from the collections of the Museo Etnomusicale I Gigli di Nola…
First annual summer Italian cinema series. Four evenings filled with Italian-style comedy, romance, suspense and drama. Films are in Italian with English subtitles. July 22:…
Cristina M. Bettin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Following the “Emancipation” of Italian Jews in the late nineteenth century, numerous youth movements, newspapers, and…
The works featured in the exhibition date from 1865 to 1959 and are from the collection of Professor Leonard Norman Primiano of Cabrini College. Within…
This powerful suite of stories begins in 1900 against a background of rural Sicilian class warfare. A young man kills his violent, adulterous father and…
These two films portray extraordinary Italian-American personalities and their remarkable contributions. 19 Arrests, No Convictions is a documentary portrait of George Farnsworth, an Italian-American bar…