Upside-Down Love
Sari Bashi’s Upside-Down Love. A Memoir in Two Voices — published in 2021 in Israel and...
Books
An Evening of Love Poetry at Bookhouse
Good evening and welcome to Bookhouse. It’s a pleasure to see new and familiar faces in...
The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt
Reviewed: The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt: Radio Journalist Lisa Sergio by Sandro Gerbi (Palgrave...
Some Italian Observers on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In Italy, as elsewhere, the debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict increasingly connotes how the Jewish diaspora...
Here Comes the Sun
Tagore in Italy and the Myths of East and West Reviewed: Meeting with Mussolini: Tagore’s Tours...
A Test of Names: Franco Fortini and Primo Levi on the Language of Anti-Fascism
Published by permission, Counter Text Vol. 9, No. 2 Image: Funeral of Giuseppe Pinelli, the Italian...
A Note on My Quandary About Political Poetry
With an Attempted Translation of a Poem by Franco Fortini (original post). Last October, Norman Finkelstein...
BOOKHOUSE Musings: Stories of and around books
At Bookhouse, we gather stories about books, unusual bookstores, printers, publishers, and book collectors. Recently, I...
Then As Now: Self-Interest and Profit Behind the Illusion of Taming Nazism
Chapoutot hits the mark when he describes, alongside a self-referential employer class, that of the jurists,...
Diversity and Rabbinization
Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (eds), Diversity and Rabbinization, Jewish Texts and...