Homens da Nação
Homens da Nação: the « Portuguese » of Livorno and Tunis From a very young age, I knew I was a Livornese, but I only went to Livorno for the first time…
Homens da Nação: the « Portuguese » of Livorno and Tunis From a very young age, I knew I was a Livornese, but I only went to Livorno for the first time…
DELASEM. The Unhailed Organization That Assisted Thousands of Jewish Refugees. Interview by Alessandro Cassin From Hitler’s raise to power in 1933 up to the early 1940’s, Italy was one of…
Courtesy www.morasha.it The feast of Purim commemorates an event which took place 2500 years ago in Persia, during the reign of Assuero. The Book of Esther…
Visiting the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, one is struck by the silence. It is not real silence, after all the birds go about their business and so do the…
Pius XII and the 16th of October, 1943 This article appeared in the journal “Italia” edited by Robert Bonfil, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, vol. XXI, 2012. Centro Primo Levi…
Anna Foa, Portico d’Ottavia 13: Una casa del ghetto nel lungo inverno del ’4, Laterza 2014 Review by Andrea Grover Anna Foa’s , Portico D’Ottavia 13: Una casa del ghetto…
Tuscan Memories of the Nazi Deportation: Devoto’s Oral Archive (1987-1989) Andrea Devoto (1927-1994) was an Italian psychologist, a professor of Social Psychology and the director of the Ospedale Psichiatrico in Maggiano (Lucca) and the Ospedale Psichiatrico San Salvi in Florence. At the…
Hearing Jewish, Writing Italian Reconsidering the Written Sources of Italian Jewish Music The earliest historical sources that document the development of Jewish musical culture in Italy are a series of…
Collateral Damage: Luigi Dallapiccola’s Musical Innovations Between Tyranny and Ideology Alessandro Cassin With a riveting concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have…
Il Generale della Rovere an the Dilemmas of Post-War Italy In his recent book The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010, Robert Gordon refers to the late 1950s and early 1960s…