Science Fiction?
Francesco Cassata delivers the 2015 Primo Levi Lecture Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila,…
Books
The Missing Jewish Books
The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome. Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust. Link “This book is entirely the work of my hands, for I…
Download CPL Editions’ App
The CPL EDITIONS App is finally online and can be downloaded at no cost from iTunes and Googlepaly. It is a new and convenient way to update readers on…
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism seeks to cover the history of the “anti-fascist paradigm”, namely anti-Fascism held as the backbone of the Italian Republic, from its inception to its decline. Its…
Shadal on Exodus
Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the…
The Historical Uncanny
Vicarious Witnessing at the Boundaries of Holocaust Memory The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory is an ambitious work, offering nuanced and insightful studies of lesser-known…
Un “plan Marshall juif”
Scott-Weaver on Hobson Faure, ‘Un “plan Marshall juif”: La présence juive américaine en France après la Shoah, 1944-1954’ American Jewish Philanthropy and Jewish Reconstruction in Postwar France Laura Hobson Faure’s…
The Valmadonna Library
The Writing on the Wall. A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library PREFACE Now the wise ones . . . should read the writing [on the wall]…
Quaestio De Centauris
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s complete works will be available in English for the first time. Norton’s Liveright imprint…
Architectural and Urban Histories
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under Italian fascist rule lie questions of political allegiance and valence. How ‘fascist’ were the…