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BOOKHOUSE THURSDAY 📚️🏠️⁠ ⁠ Sixth Flo

BOOKHOUSE THURSDAY 📚️🏠️⁠
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Sixth Floor Bookshouse, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street,⁠
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Reservations required: rsvp@primolevicenter.org⁠
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Bookhouse is a small place about books on the sixth floor of a Chelsea library building. Take the elevator and discover cozy rooms softly illuminated and infused with music, filled with books and carpets, a samovar from Izmir, porcelain tea cups made in the DDR, and all sorts of lovely obsolete items abandoned and found in the streets of New York.⁠
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Every Thursday we are open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm. Just ask for Bookhouse at the door, we’ll meet you there and pick you up. Or send us a message at rsvp@primolevicenter.org. ⁠
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Come and browse, study, have a conversation, sip a sweet chai, and watch a film. You can purchase books from Dan Wyman’s inventory, check out his rotating showcase, learn about CPL Editions (books we make here at Bookhouse), and explore the Sephardic House bookstore.

📚️ Jews and State Building 📚️⁠ ⁠ New

📚️ Jews and State Building 📚️⁠
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New book roundtable with Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. ⁠
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Reservation is required: rsvp@primolevicenter.org⁠
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Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. Leiden-Boston, Brill: 2025⁠
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In 2019, two scholarly meetings (University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and University of Rome La Sapienza), sought to explore forms of cooperation, imitation, exchange, alliance, and interaction between Jews and Christians in early modern Italy. The research project was aimed at challenging the traditional paradigm that looks at the history of Christian-Jewish interactions only through the prism of anti-Semitism. We have tried to demonstrate strategies of coexistence between different religions and cultures, strategies that helped to shape early modern European political and social history and were instrumental in defining what has come to be called modernity. ⁠
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The editors of this multifaceted volume will discuss its content, historiographical background, and prospects.

“The trunk was a gift from Aunt Jole, Anna’s f

“The trunk was a gift from Aunt Jole, Anna’s father’s sister, when we were married, and hastily so. It was (still is, even half a century on) a marvelous trunk, though in certain respects it was more like a closet that lent itself to travel, even if, ultimately and unexpectedly, for reasons I’ll get to, it was destined to stay put.”⁠
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Read our new book, The Trunk. By Alberto Vigevani, Translated by Will Schutt.⁠
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Available for purchase on our website.⁠

BOOKHOUSE THURSDAY 📚️🏠️⁠ ⁠ Sixth Flo

BOOKHOUSE THURSDAY 📚️🏠️⁠
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Sixth Floor Bookshouse, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street,⁠
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Reservations required: rsvp@primolevicenter.org⁠
⁠
Bookhouse is a small place about books on the sixth floor of a Chelsea library building. Take the elevator and discover cozy rooms softly illuminated and infused with music, filled with books and carpets, a samovar from Izmir, porcelain tea cups made in the DDR, and all sorts of lovely obsolete items abandoned and found in the streets of New York.⁠
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Every Thursday we are open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm. Just ask for Bookhouse at the door, we’ll meet you there and pick you up. Or send us a message at rsvp@primolevicenter.org. ⁠
⁠
Come and browse, study, have a conversation, sip a sweet chai, and watch a film. You can purchase books from Dan Wyman’s inventory, check out his rotating showcase, learn about CPL Editions (books we make here at Bookhouse), and explore the Sephardic House bookstore.

Our book “After Images, The Murder of the Einste

Our book “After Images, The Murder of the Einstein Mazzetti Family” was just reviewed by @thejerusalem_post. Read the full review at the link in our bio.

Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building

Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building 🕯️⁠
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A new book will be presented at Bookhouse on March 18th at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.⁠
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Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda, Leiden-Boston, Brill: 2025⁠
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This volume aims to shed new light on the history of the Jews in Italy between the early modern period and the emergence of a unified Italian state, explicitly placing Jews within the history of the state-building process. It seeks to reconsider Jewish history systematically by stressing the relation of Jews and the state and to trace how Jews and their communities were reshaped in the early modern period.⁠
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A conference on “Jews and State Building in Early Modern Italy” was held May 5-7, 2019, at the University of Maryland in College Park and Johns Hopkins University. This was the second gathering within a larger project that also included an earlier international conference on “Sabbatanism in Italy and its Mediterranean Context” (Sapienza – University of Rome, January 20-22, 2019) and a later one entitled “Imagining the Renaissance, Defining the Jews” held in Jerusalem on January 19-21, 2020, just before the outbreak of the pandemic.

ON VIEW FROM DAN WYMAN'S INVENTORY⁠ ⁠ At Bookh

ON VIEW FROM DAN WYMAN'S INVENTORY⁠
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At Bookhouse, you can browse and shop for rare books and selected new titles. If you have special book requests contact Dan@DanWymanBooks.com.⁠
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This week's featured book is The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy by David W. Amram, Julius H. Greenstone, 1909⁠
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Published in 1909, David Amram's classic was written in collaboration with his wife, Beulah Brylawski, known for her articles in the Jewish Exponent and for her Italian research in the Atlantic Monthly. The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy was long regarded as his most significant contribution to Jewish scholarship. This work, which he dedicated to his friend, Dr. Lewis W. Steinbach, gives a comprehensive account of the early history of the Hebrew printing press and of the Hebrew books produced during the infancy of the art of printing, particularly the work done by Gershon Soncino and of the Christian printer, Daniel Bomberg, who issued the first complete edition of the Talmud in the early part of the sixteenth century. ⁠
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On. Stare on. Say on, Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on

On. Stare on. Say on, Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on.⁠
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�Till dim gone. At long last gone. All at long last gone.⁠
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For bad and all. For poor best worse and all.⁠
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Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, 1983

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