2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws introduced in Fascist Italy by the dictator Benito Mussolini. As often happens with decennial milestones of major historical events, an opportunity is afforded to look back and see the progress of the relevant scholarly literature, and what future directions may be mapped out.
Ghetto and Not
Overcoming the paradigm of insularity and unscalable walls – which the ghetto symbolizes – allows us to identify systems of…
Americordo
The Italian Jewish Exiles in America. By Gianna Pontecorboli. "Embarking on that ship had entailed untold difficulties. They made the…
Historian Michele Sarfatti is Honored at Columbia University
A crowd of 250 people at the Italian Academy at Columbia University paid homage to historian Michele Sarfatti. Renowned for his groundbreaking…
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…
