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Books February 10, 2026

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…

Academia, Books 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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

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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Interviews March 26, 2011

Fascist Imperial Dreams

Fascist Imperial Dreams, a conversation with Davide Rodogno by Alessandro Cassin Mussolini’s short-lived empire has often been thought of dismissively as an operetta affair. In addition to its colonies in…

News March 26, 2011

Memory, Neglected.

  Memory, Neglected. The Italian Memorial in Auschwitz Alessandro Cassin Memorialization of the Shoah and its possible expression through art have been stirring passionate debates over the past 40 years….

Essays March 26, 2011

Tullia Calabi Zevi

Tullia Calabi Zevi (1919-2011):  “My Political Autobiography” Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria…

Books March 26, 2011

Paper Lives

Paper Lives- Survival and Deportation in San Donato Val Comino, 1940-1943 Anna Pizzuti’s website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War…

News January 29, 2010

The Italian Jewish Press

The New Mobility of Italian Jewish Press: Pagine Ebraiche Alessandro Cassin interviews Guido Vitale In a time when media empires are crumbling and journalism seems like a dying profession, the…

Books January 29, 2010

War and revolution in Yugoslavia

Jozo Tomasevich, War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration, Stanford University Press, 2001 This is the long-awaited second part of the author’s meticulously researched and scrupulously impartial study…