Printed Matter

One of the most challenging projects was an Aramaic grammar book. To begin with, who is going to buy such…

Thus, by following denigration with reassurance, he began the slow process of building up racist philosophy, which had appeared to…

Overcoming the paradigm of insularity and unscalable walls – which the ghetto symbolizes – allows us to identify systems of…

Scholars have often wondered whether the documents presented by Josephus are at all genuine. Josephus is the only ancient author…

But here he was, in this room, in this chair, trying once more to explain – to explain the war,…

Against the backdrop of the menorah’s disappearance, the counterpoint of art and history reinforces the power of this object and…

In Rome, two arches built by the last Flavian ruler, Domitian, are the main memento of the Roman triumph on…

A new enlarged edition of Gaetano Salvemini’s Carlo and Nello Rosselli, A memoir, curated by Marina Calloni, to be published…

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia — and consequently New York City at large— have been fortunate to receive…

The Golden Haggadah is one of the finest of the surviving Haggadah manuscripts from medieval Spain. The Haggadah, which literally…

“My humble request to Your Excellency”. Brief accounts of  life and death in Italy. Based on archival documentation on “foreign…

The way our societies confront the plight of the millions of refugees from various areas of the world escaping famine,…