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Books, Essays October 16, 2025

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…

News April 15, 2025

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…

Books March 5, 2025

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…

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Essays March 26, 2012

Our History as Italian Jews

  Opening speech at the Italian Jewish Congress 2011 The intensity and strength of the Italian Jewish minority’s connection with Italian Unification is well known. Aware that any hope of…

Books, News March 24, 2012

Italian Jews in the Modern Era

Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione. Carocci editore, Rome, 2014 Marina Caffiero’s new book offers an engaging overview of the situation of the Jews of…

Academia, Essays March 19, 2012

Eighty Years in Print

Eighty Years in Print: The Rassegna Mensile di Israel What follows is the text of the speech given by Prof. Anna Foa at the presentation of the indices  of the…

Books March 19, 2012

Fossoli

      A New Book on the Transit Camp of Fossoli by Liliana Picciotto   Liliiana Picciotto’s new volume –  L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel…

Interviews March 31, 2011

Stella Levi Honored

Stella Levi to Be Honored at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Alessandro Cassin interviews Stella Levi On June 2, CPL Board member, Stella Levi will be honored at the Museum…

Books March 29, 2011

Dictating Demography

Carl Ipsen, Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2002 Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the…