Books

Are We All Faust?

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed […] dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard … (Primo Levi, The Periodic Table)…

The Family of Piazza Stamira

Marco Cavallerin’s La famiglia di piazza Stamira (Affinità Elettive, Ancona, 2023. In Italian), a title that refers to the family’s ancestral home in Ancona, is a captivating read that packs…

Modigliani’s alphabet of love

In its multidirectional work, Centro Primo Levi finds continuous inspiration and guidance in the writings of scholars, artists, and thinkers from our times, and from the past. In facing the complexity…

Biography of a Lost World

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…

New Titles from CPL Editions

THE RENEGADE Finally, historian Ariel Toaff’s first novel, The Renegade, is available in English from CPL Editions. It is a captivating literary debut: a meticulously documented historical mystery page-turner about…

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”

Whose (Who’s) Shakespeare? On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” “You are a stranger here,” declares the opening poem of Amelia Rosselli’s slim volume Sleep (2023), “and have no place among us.” This…

Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review

Re-Covered: The Sky Falls by Lorenza Mazzetti By Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020   In 1956, in a central London café, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and Lorenza Mazzetti wrote…

The Eternal Tendency Toward Fascism

Edited for Printed Matter. Original version with notes published in Allegoria.    Every age has its fascism. Primo Levi   When Fear of Freedom was first published in Italy in…