The Italian Jewish Exiles in America. By Gianna Pontecorboli. “Embarking on that ship had entailed untold difficulties. They made the seventeen-day trip in third class, among poor passengers. … Though they grew up and studied in Italy, their passports identified them as ‘stateless’.”
The Language that Lived Twice
The almost daunting task of tracing the history of the Hebrew language, and that of the literature and of the…
The Jewish War and Rome’s Urban Renewal
In Rome, two arches built by the last Flavian ruler, Domitian, are the main memento of the Roman triumph on…
Current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti.
2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws introduced in Fascist Italy by the dictator Benito Mussolini. As often…
He Was and Old Man in a Cold Season
But here he was, in this room, in this chair, trying once more to explain – to explain the war,…
