Essays

Bookhouse Musings: A Table

Eight months after its opening, Bookhouse  is flourishing, attracting visitors, students, and scholars. What sets Bookhouse apart is its collaborative nature — Centro Primo Levi, American Sephardi Federation, and Dan…

Thruth and the Holocaust

In the past few years, Centro Primo Levi’s table has been animated by conversations, doubts, and questions about Levi’s writings in light of current events. I kept a log of…

An Act of Faith

It is our duty as young people to believe in life. Believing in life means believing in ourselves. But seeing that our character cannot fully develop if not in a…

The War Fronts of Helena Salem

Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film “I’m Still Here.” Eunice was the wife of the politician Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and…

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

Rethinking Holocaust Memory

  “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…

March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students

We are posting Pierpaolo Pasolini’s 1968 letter to the students in revolt to invite reflection on the continuities and discontinuities of students’ protest, consider what has happened since and think…

Extravagant reflections around Pesach

This essay is part of a widespread reflection on the places and forms of historical Judaism.   E: It’s going to be Pesach soon. What are you thinking about? Will…

Del doman non v’è certezza

From the joint program on Giorno della Memoria In the past weeks I have received hundreds of remembrance day emails and letters asking “to fight Holocaust distortion” and “antisemitism.” One…