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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The Talking Dead
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Bookhouse Musings: Between Dream and Reality
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Invited to Think
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The Printshop at Bookhouse
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La Storia
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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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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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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and…
The Jews of San Nicandro
John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble southern Italian town in…
Answering Auschwitz
Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press, 2011 More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo…
A Storyteller’s Tale
This is a story of light and shadows: it belongs to one of the people whose lives have been touched by the events reconstructed in Anna Pizzuti’s book Paper Lives…
Ritual Basin, 18th century ca.., Jewish Museum of Rome
Ritual Basin, 18th century ca.., Jewish Museum of Rome, photo by Araldo De Luca
The Auschwitz Experiment
The second Primo Levi Lecture was presented by Massimo Bucciantini, Professor of History of Science at the University of Siena-Arezzo, on November 11, 2010. A large audience and three classes…