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Essays, News July 24, 2018

Being a Centaur

What follows is Alessandro Di Rocco’s acceptance speech of the Centaur Award 2018.I want to thank all of you for being here tonight. I am honored and humbled by this tribute.

Essays April 17, 2018

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…

Interviews March 1, 2018

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…

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Academia July 28, 2016

Sites of Conflicted History

Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History A call for papers. International conference. 13-15 March 2017. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland Dear Colleagues, I would like…

Academia July 28, 2016

Italy’s Decade of War

Italy’s Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective 6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow   Keynote Speakers: Professor MacGregor Knox, LSE Professor Nicola Labanca, Università degli Studi di Siena…

Essays July 22, 2016

Rhodes: Our Piece of the Earth

Seventy years ago, on July 23, 1944, Jewish life on this Island of roses came to an end. Today we convene here in Kahal Shalom to mourn the interrupted and…

Essays July 18, 2016

Women and the Torah

In Italy, a Unique Connection Between Women and the Torah. Creating special Torah coverings—often from discarded scraps of fabric—has a long history for Italian women A Torah scroll takes years to…

Books July 18, 2016

A Primo Levi Atlas

A Primo Levi Atlas: Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo, by Marco Belpoliti Marco Belpoliti has crowned his decades long critical engagement with Levi with an ambitious new book, Primo…