“A Century with Levinas
Of War, Labor and Youth:
the Talmud in Paris 1968”
Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics in the 21st Century

This centennial program is made possible through the support of
the Gisella Levi Cahnman Seminar Fund and

is co-presented by
The Center for Jewish History (CJH), New York,
The Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation (LELF), New York

in collaboration with
the Association pour la Célébration du Centenaire d’Emmanuel Levinas (ACCEL), Paris, France and
the Centre Raïssa et Emmanuel Levinas (MOFET), Jerusalem, Israel.
the North American Levinas Society

It is organized under the auspices of
the American Sephardi Federation and
the Yeshiva University Museum.

The centennial conference will deal with the major facets of Levinas’ philosophical and Jewish works, as well as their impact in the social, political, and educational arenas.

Levinas’ views on social justice, individual responsibility, and sustainable economies will be presented in the same accessible terms in which  he once delivered them at his Talmudic readings for the Parisian community.

FUTURE PROGRAMS

The Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation and the Center for Jewish History are seeking to establish a semiannual lecture inspired by the Talmudic readings of Emmanuel Levinas.

Proposals can be submitted to the Center’s program office or to the foundation.

Gisella Levi Cahnman was born in Turin, Italy, on April 5, 1910. The youngest of three daughters of the engineer and inventor Ettore Levi and Andreina Orefice, she graduated in physics at the Politecnico di Torino. Escaping anti-Semitism, Gisella moved to the US in 1939 where she received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She and her husband, Werner Cahnman, lived most of their life in New York where she died in 2003.