Yohanan Alemanno
Cultural Relationships between Jews and Non-Jews in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Yohanan Alemanno This talk was presented at the symposium “Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond”…
Cultural Relationships between Jews and Non-Jews in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Yohanan Alemanno This talk was presented at the symposium “Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond”…
Kabbalah in the Age of Reason: Elijah Benamozegh This talk was presented at the symposium “Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond” organized by Centro Primo Levi and …
Group photo: 1938 This is the story of a group of young, ordinary people who happened to live, as Silvio Ortona put it, at an extraordinary time and who had…
This paper was delivered on June 2 at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU on the occasion of Italian National Day and the 90th Anniversary of Matteotti’s murder The murder of…
The Matteotti murder and the origins of Mussolini’s totalitarian Fascist regime in Italy This paper was delivered on June 2 at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU on the occasion of…
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Intellectual History Research does not always proceed according to a predetermined plan. In some cases, the opposite is true:…
Some Observations on Catholicism, Fascism and Totalitarianism During the Papacy of Pius XI. On David L. Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise…
It took a war for everyone to understand what the regime represented, a regime highly skilled in cultivating consensus. Though it seemed like a harmless dictatorship, it wasn’t in the least.
Books Within Books: Mauro Perani, passionate archeologist of the written word. Alessandro Cassin One sensational discovery – in our media driven world – can spread the excitement from…
«I nostri compagni d’America»: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Rescue of Italian Antifascists, 1934-1941 After the German army’s invasion of France in June 1940, hundreds of Italian antifascists, most…