Printed Matter

La iente de Zion is a Jewish liturgical poem composed for the observance of the fast of the 9th day…

But what most displeased me, personally, was that my characters were used so freely, with so little reference to my…

A brilliant publisher, Formiggini started running his business in the first decade of the twentieth century in his hometown of…

I met Piero Dello Strologo many years ago in Genova. He was younger than I am today and became the…

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…