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Books March 12, 2024

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….

Essays September 19, 2023

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…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

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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Books March 26, 2013

Dawn Came Upon

        Dawn Came Upon Us Like a Betrayer: Jews in the Camp of Fossoli 1943-1944 This article is based on the introduction to Liliana Picciotto’s book: L’alba ci colse…

News March 25, 2013

Centaur Award 2013

John Elkann presents the Centaur Award to John Turturro On May 20th, 2013, Centro Primo Levi hosted its first benefit Gala. On this occasion John Elkann presented the Centaur Award…

Essays March 24, 2013

Ferramonti, 70 Years After

International Conference Remembers the Concentration Camp of Ferramonti, 70 Years After the Liberation April 24 | 10 am to 6 pm, Centro Ebraico Il Pitigliani | Via Arco de’ Tolomei,…

Essays March 17, 2013

Hidden in Plain Sight

        Alessandro Cassin Translated by Mariuca Iosifescu As it often happened in the past,  among this year’s initiatives to commemorate Yom Hashoah, there is little mention of…

Essays March 17, 2013

From Sarajevo to Parma

From Sarajevo to Parma, a Jewish family during the Second World War In the days that preceded Christmas 1941, before the eyes of the stunned inhabitants of the community of…

Books March 31, 2012

Threads and Traces

        Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University of California Press, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new…