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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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Interviews January 19, 2010

The Language of Testimony

The Language of Testimony:  a Conversation with Manuela Consonni by Alessandro Cassin Manuela Consonni is head of the Department of Italian Studies and the Romance and Latin American Studies section…

News January 18, 2010

The People of the Book

The People of the Book and Their Books: Ferrara Celebrates Jewish Continuity and Book Publishing in Italy Alessandro Cassin interviews Riccardo Calimani The first edition of the Italian Jewish Book…

Essays January 14, 2010

Jews and the Present of the Past

        Jews and the Present of the Past: A Retrospective Look at the the ‘Symbolic and Ethnic Other’ Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University) introduces Kenneth Stow (University of…

Books January 8, 2010

Giovanni Palatucci

        Giovanni Palatucci Between History and Hagiography Alessandro Cassin interviews Marco Coslovich Of the trends that have characterized the debate on the Shoah in Italy the one…

Interviews January 2, 2010

Roman Jews Welcome the Pope

Once again Roman Jews Welcome the Pope: A surprise exhibition welcomes Benedict XVI to the Jewish Museum of Rome Interview with Daniela Di Castro, Director of the Jewish Museum of Rome…

Books March 31, 2009

Conversation with Lia Levi

  Alessandro Cassin Lia Levi’s new novel, The Jewish Husband, Europa Editions, 2009 provides a poignant reflection on the far-reaching consequences of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish legislation of 1938. The novel illustrates…