Songbook: Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba, George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan (translators), Songbook: The Selected Poems, Yale University Press, 2009 Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in…
Books
Augusto Segre’s Memoir
Augusto Segre (Translator: Steve Siporin), Memories of a Jewish Life, University of Nebraska Press, 2008 In this lyrical memoir, translated for the first time into English, noted Jewish historian, author,…
The Jews in Sicily
Shlomo Simonsohn, The Jews in Sicily. Notaries of Palermo and Trapani, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the first…
The Familiarity of Strangers
Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period, Yale University Press, 2009 Taking a new approach to the study of…
Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Roberto Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, University of California Press, 1994 With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the…
Outside the Party Lines
An intellectual biography of the antifascist Carlo Rosselli by Alexander Stille (The New York Times) Carlo Rosselli — one of the most courageous and interesting figures of Italian antifascism —…
History as Memory
History as Memory: Conversation with Sergio Parussa by Alessandro Cassin Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony, Syracuse University Press, 2008, by Sergio Parussa is a highly personal study of four…
Boualem Sansal Pays Tribute to Primo Levi
In a Complex New Book, Algerian Novelist Boualem Sansal Pays Tribute to Primo Levi. Alessandro Cassin The German Mujahid, Europa Editions, 2009, by the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal is…
Benevolence and Betrayal
Alexander Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, Picador, 2003 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award this book is a profoundly moving history of…
Piero Sraffa
Alessandro Roncaglia, Piero Sraffa: His life, thought and cultural heritage, Routledge, 2000-2009 This is a lively, intellectual biography of a leading protagonist of 20th century culture and his relations…