A Woman’s Resistance
A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…
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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Features
Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…
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From the Altar to Dust: Giuliano Gerbi and the Voice of Italian Sport
The beloved sports correspondent, after having chronicled the Tour de France and Bartali’s victory, is “expelled” in accordance with racial laws. Two letters shed light on Corriere della Sera’s editor Borelli’s…
Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
In various ways, Bookhouse visitors have expressed curiosity about the technical and artisanal aspects of typography and book production. I will periodically propose a book, an image, or a video…
Remembering Roberto Bassi
Centro Primo Levi mourns the death of Roberto Bassi, z’’l, dearly remembered for his charm, human qualities, and for his role in post-war Italian Judaism. Born in Venice in 1931,…
The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
Mauro Canali, The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini: The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime, Palgrave 2024 On June 10, 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, a young member of the Italian Parliament and Secretary…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Edith Bruck’s Short Stories
Edith Bruck, This Darkness Will Never End, Paul Dry Books, 2025, Translated by Jeanne Bonner | 187 pp. In 1944, at the age of 13, Edith Bruck was deported to…
Swahili Lit Festival
As Primo Levi’s book is becoming available to Swahili readers, we would like to welcome on these pages news about Swahili literature, translation, book publishing and literary festivals. This interview…