Interview with Peter Cole
Going elsewhere might just show you who you are and what you might become. That physically, psychologically, imaginatively, you have…
Going elsewhere might just show you who you are and what you might become. That physically, psychologically, imaginatively, you have…
As the reader will no doubt recognize, Under Gentile Eyes, the title chosen for this inquiry into some of the…
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah opened its third exhibition entitled Beyond the Ghetto. Inside Out curated…
Italian Jews Between Segregation and Emancipation (1849-1871). The Jewish Museum of Rome opens a magnificent exhibition dedicated to the period…
On a November morning in 1840, a young boy discovers the body of David Ajash, an Italian kabbalist rabbi of…
Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of…
Due vite (Two Lives) by Emanuele Trevi is a luminous, beautifully written wisdom book. It was deservedly awarded the 2021 Premio…
Chemist and writer Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table—a memoir in the form of short stories about elements—closes with a chapter…
Eliza Pederzoli’s biography L’arte di farsi conoscere. Formiggini e la diffusione del libro e della cultura italiana nel mondo (Roma,…
Scholar of forced baptisms Marina Caffiero talks about the House of Catechumens and the various groups that were forcibly or…
Rewarding memoirs, like portraits, introduce us to a central character interacting with his or her world at a specific time…
Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism–Let Our Music Be Played, (Palgrave, Macmillan 2021), edited by Alessandro Carrieri and Annalisa Capristo,…