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…
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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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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Sarai e Hagar
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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…
WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…
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Resistance and Shoah
Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on the different uses of memory of the Resistance and of the Shoah, which…
Dialogues of Love
Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009 More about Leone Ebreo from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published…
Sarra Copia Sullam
Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago Press, 2009 The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and…
In corpore
Loredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross, In corpore: bodies in post-unification Italy, Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007 In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and…
A New Journal: Quest
The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan Launches Online History Journal: Quest Alessandro Cassin interviews Michele Sarfatti, historian and director of CDEC The recent launch of the online magazine…
Ideology in Stone
How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history as an objective and time resistant benchmark. Throughout the centuries totalitarian regimes have erected…