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
Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building
A new book will be presented at Bookhouse on March 18th. Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano…
What’s in a Book?
Book trading and the making of open communities. The passion for books and the belief in their centrality in passing knowledge and creating personal connections is at the core of…
Let There Be Light
A new book explores Levi’s capacity to combine the cognitive power of science with religion’s forces of enchantment and ritual. Whoever said that a book must be long and weighty…
The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy: David W. Amram and Beulah Brylawski
Amidst growing instability and divide in American society, cultural uncertainty, and perhaps a surplus of time, revisionist histories of Jewish learning are sprouting everywhere. The lives of women and men…
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,…
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…