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A Working Seminar at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism The initial impulse for the organization of this workshop came from our need to discuss our…
Scholars from different countries gathered in Jerusalem for a symposium that revisited the Italian Racist legislation of 1938 in a interdisciplinary and contemporary perspective. The themes investigated in the colloquium…
A crowd of 250 people at the Italian Academy at Columbia University paid homage to historian Michele Sarfatti. Renowned for his groundbreaking research on Italian Jewry, Fascist antisemitism and the Shoah in…
The history of Italy’s Jews has traditionally been understood within the framework of the Peninsula’s city- and state-system, with the ultimate “emancipation” of the Jews tied directly to the process…
When Elsa Morante published La Storia. Romanzo in 1974 it was a watershed event that invested Italian society both in terms of the unprecedented success among readers and the ideologically…
In the 1930’s the young Italian artist, Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola Romana, supported by the Fascist regime despite being both Jewish and a homosexual. Following…
The Relationship between Jews and Christians. Toward a Redefinition of the Ghetto In Italy, during the past two decades, Jewish history has pervasively captured the attention of researchers – even…
Roman Policy Towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome During the First Century C. E. Tant de causes secretes se mêlent souvent à la cause apparente, tant de…
We thank Paula Fredriksen for this anticipation on her upcoming book. JOSEPHUS [Winter 97 CE] He was an old man in a cold season. He had lived for so…
A new enlarged edition of Gaetano Salvemini’s Carlo and Nello Rosselli, A memoir, curated by Marina Calloni, to be published by CPL Editions and Viella Edizioni. Beyond the impulse to…