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…
Modigliani’s Alphabet of Love
Alessandro Cassin. In its multidirectional work, Centro Primo Levi finds continuous inspiration and guidance in the writings of scholars, artists, and…
March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
We are posting Pierpaolo Pasolini’s 1968 letter to the students in revolt to invite reflection on the continuities and discontinuities…
Biography of a Lost World
Dario Miccoli. The recent book A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the…
Extravagant Reflections Around Pesach
This essay is part of a widespread reflection on the places and forms of historical Judaism. In the vein of…
A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconoc Memoir
Gili Izikovich, Haaretz, 2024. Prof. Claudia Rosenzweig’s well-worn Hebrew copy of Primo Levi’s “If This is a Man” – which was originally titled “Is This a Man?” in Hebrew – is full of notation marks. Every page features her handwritten notes in Italian.