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News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

Books, News November 22, 2024

WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!

The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…

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Essays, News September 11, 2025

Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)

In loving memory of Bruce and Francesca Slovin. I am sitting in the building that I visited thirty-something years ago with Francesca and Bruce Slovin. They were elated at the…

Essays July 28, 2025

QUARTO STATO

A political newspaper, a painting, and a film The murder of Giacomo Matteotti, Secretary of the Socialist Unitary Party in Rome, on June 10, 1924, by order of Mussolini, is…

Essays June 27, 2025

Bookhouse Musings: A Table

Eight months after its opening, Bookhouse  is flourishing, attracting visitors, students, and scholars. What sets Bookhouse apart is its collaborative nature — Centro Primo Levi, American Sephardi Federation, and Dan…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

In the past few years, Centro Primo Levi’s table has been animated by conversations, doubts, and questions about Levi’s writings in light of current events. I kept a log of…

Essays May 19, 2025

An Act of Faith

It is our duty as young people to believe in life. Believing in life means believing in ourselves. But seeing that our character cannot fully develop if not in a…

Books April 17, 2025

Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy

The New York tribute to Nurith Aviv opens with Translating, the last film of a trilogy that began with From One Language to Another and continued with Sacred Language, Spoken…