The Doctored ‘Memoir’ of Edgardo Mortara
The Doctored ‘Memoir’ of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography is roiling Catholic-Jewish relations—based on the false assumption that the text is accurate. After a century…
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Nuto Revelli: the History of the Present
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The Doctored ‘Memoir’ of Edgardo Mortara
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Being anti-fascist today
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A Thousand Years Deep: Early Jewish Life in Italy
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The “Aryanization” of Italian Musical Life
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Silvio Zamorani: Through Books One Thinks the World
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Ghetto and Not
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Roman Policy Towards the Jews
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Rome Lab Calendar
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The Jewish War and Rome’s Urban Renewal
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Being anti-fascist today
Giorgio Bocca interviews Primo Levi (1985) Post-war Italian and European societies largely identified anti-Fascism as their foundation. Today, across Europe this assumption is being challenged. In an the attempt to…
He Was an Old Man in a Cold Season …
We thank Paula Fredriksen for this anticipation on her upcoming book. JOSEPHUS [Winter 97 CE] He was an old man in a cold season. He had lived for so…
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A Primo Levi Atlas
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On the Dark Side of History
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EHRI Fellowship 2016-2018 offer a stage at CDEC
EHRI invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018) The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to…
The Enigma
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