A Refugee Camp at Cinecittà
The Cinecittà Refugee Camp (1944–1950) Yes, they have sacked and destroyed it; the few remaining buildings...
Essays
Spina’s Shadow
“Darling, this is Alessandro Spina, who is trying to make Italians feel guilty about their colonial...
Italian Jewish Women Artists in the 20th Century
Between June and October 2014, an exhibition entitled Artiste del Novecento tra visione e identità ebraica...
The Fosse Ardeatine
The Massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine. History, Myth, Ritual, and Symbol Over the course of...
Sixty Years Fighting Oblivion
The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan In a collection of essays published by Yad...
Our Life Was Divided
“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”1: Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime...
An Antifascist Between Italy and the United States
Davide Grippa, Un antifascista tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Democrazia e identità nazionale nel pensiero di...
The Italian-Jewish Liturgy
Traditional Jewish Music and Italian-Jewish Liturgical Traditions Jerusalem, summer 1955, Published in: “Rassegna Mensile di Israel”,...
Ethiopia 1935
Ethiopia is one of only two African countries that managed to escape colonization during Europe’s great...
A Polishman among Ethiopians
A century before global Jewry reached out to Ethiopia’s community, a researcher named Jacques Faitlovitch...