The almost daunting task of tracing the history of the Hebrew language, and that of the literature and of the people who have read it or spoke it, is achieved in 214 pages, balancing real scholarship with lightness, enthusiasm, personal anecdotes and the joy of storytelling.
A Thousand Years Deep
In and of itself, this beam that, from the prison of Via Piangipane illuminates the land beneath which —in Carlo…
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…
Translating Bassani
Poet and translator Jamie McKendrick has found a way to render Bassani’s notoriously complex syntax, his long, languorous sentences with…
Primo Levi at 100
Primo Levi’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated around the world through lectures, book presentations, staged readings, and academic seminars.
