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Augusto Segre’s Memoir

Augusto Segre (Translator: Steve Siporin), Memories of a Jewish Life, University of Nebraska Press, 2008 In this lyrical memoir, translated for the first time into English, noted Jewish historian, author,…

The Jews in Sicily

Shlomo Simonsohn, The Jews in Sicily. Notaries of Palermo and Trapani, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008   This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the first…

The Familiarity of Strangers

Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period, Yale University Press, 2009 Taking a new approach to the study of…

Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy

Roberto Bonfil,  Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, University of California Press, 1994 With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the…

Outside the Party Lines

An intellectual biography of the antifascist Carlo Rosselli by Alexander Stille (The New York Times) Carlo Rosselli — one of the most courageous and interesting figures of Italian antifascism —…

Acquiescence and Dissent

Acquiescence and Dissent: The Response of Intellectuals to the Fascist Racial Laws in Italy and Abroad When, in 1938, the Fascist government passed the anti-Semitic Racial Laws and the Jews…