These Thoughts of Mine
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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These Thoughts of Mine
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The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’ “Her Side of The Story”
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Amos Gitai, Sheltering from War
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On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”
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Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review
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The Eternal Tendency Toward Fascism
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Truth or Dare?
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The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…
Thanks Goodness I Am Here
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41. Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021 In July 1939, Mario and Clara…
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Thanks Goodness I Am Here
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41. Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021 In July 1939, Mario and Clara…
Italy and the Jews Beyond the Borders
Michele Sarfatti I confini di una persecuzione-Il fascismo e gli ebrei fuori d’Italia (1939-1943), Viella, Rome, 2023 Adding to his decades-long seminal research on Italian Fascism, Michel Sarfatti’s new book…
The Grand Counsel Against the Jews
Giorgio Fabre. Il Gran Consiglio Contro Gli Ebrei 6-7 0ttobre 1938: Mussolini Balbo e il regime. Il Mulino, Bolgna 2023. Through an in-depth analysis of recently emerged documents, Giorgio…
Davide Rodogno’s Night on Earth
A complex and fascinating mosaic of the Western Humanitarian Organizations activities in the Near East After World War One One of the most impactful aspects of the International Museum of…
The Last Muslims in Italy
During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does not mention Lucera Saracenorum (a Latin placename meaning “Lucera of the Saracens”) in his writings,…
Always Remember Your Name
A memoir by Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Forward by Ruth Franklin Andra and Tatiana Bucci, Always Remember Your Name, translated by Ann Goldstein. Astra House By all rights, this book…