Philosophy and Kabbalah
Alessandro Guetta, Philosophy and Kabbalah. Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericis, State University of New York Press, 2009 Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis…
Books
Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb
Giuseppe Veltri, Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb. Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual…
Acculturation and its Discontents
David H. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter Hanns Reill, Geoffrey Symcox (Eds.), Acculturation and its Discontents, University of Toronto Press, 2008 Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in…
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…
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…