Swahili Lit Festival
As Primo Levi’s book is becoming available to Swahili readers, we would like to welcome on these pages news about…
Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center…
Jews and State Building
This new book presented at Bookhouse was edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda. This volume…
The War Fronts of Helena Salem
Monique Sochaczewski. There is a welcome trend in Brazil to research and write about women in different fields and historical…
A New Guide to Jewish Puglia
Fabrizio Ghio and Fabrizio Lelli, The Jewish Salento: Travel Guide. Translated by David Katan. Capone Editore. Perhaps this is one…
What’s in a Book? Interview With Dan Wyman
Interview with Dan Wyman. To start out, Dan Wyman has filled a wall of the BOOKHOUSE with a selection of…
Let There Be Light
Marco Belpoliti. A new book explores Levi’s capacity to combine the cognitive power of science with religion’s forces of enchantment…
The Making of Hebrew Books in Italy
Amidst growing instability and divide in American society, cultural uncertainty, and perhaps a surplus of time, revisionist histories of Jewish…
Welcome to Bookhouse!
Bookhouse is an intimate space for collaborative work on books and book culture and history, comprised of a reading room,…
Hatching the Cobra
Primo Levi. The story, whether true or false, has a curiously modern flavor. For the purposes of a posthumous trial…
Are We All Faust?
In Devil’s Contract, Ed Simon examines historical events and the present through the lens of the Faustian bargain. We have been,…
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
This current weaponization of the Holocaust and of antisemitism is something that I have contested, along with colleagues from the…
