The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
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A Star-and-Crescent Spangled Banner: On Niyū Yūrk
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Diversity and Rabbinization
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The Talking Dead
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Bookhouse Musings: Between Dream and Reality
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Invited to Think
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La Storia
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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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La Storia
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
Thruth and the Holocaust
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
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