Le Vie dei Canti
Le Vie dei Canti: Jewish Music in Livorno From the introduction to Daniele Bedarida’s recording Shemà Qolì For centuries Livorno has been both a meeting point and global springboard for…
Essays
Our History as Italian Jews
Opening speech at the Italian Jewish Congress 2011 The intensity and strength of the Italian Jewish minority’s connection with Italian Unification is well known. Aware that any hope of…
Eighty Years in Print
Eighty Years in Print: The Rassegna Mensile di Israel What follows is the text of the speech given by Prof. Anna Foa at the presentation of the indices of the…
The Auschwitz Experiment
The second Primo Levi Lecture was presented by Massimo Bucciantini, Professor of History of Science at the University of Siena-Arezzo, on November 11, 2010. A large audience and three classes…
Tullia Calabi Zevi
Tullia Calabi Zevi (1919-2011): “My Political Autobiography” Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria…
Jews and the Present of the Past
Jews and the Present of the Past: A Retrospective Look at the the ‘Symbolic and Ethnic Other’ Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University) introduces Kenneth Stow (University of…
Acquiescence and Dissent
Acquiescence and Dissent: The Response of Intellectuals to the Fascist Racial Laws in Italy and Abroad When, in 1938, the Fascist government passed the anti-Semitic Racial Laws and the Jews…
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Islam in the academia. The case of Giorgio Levi della Vida by Miriam Haier As an Italian Jewish professor in fascist Italy, Levi della Vida completed his groundbreaking work in…
Growing up Jewish in Ferrara
Courtesy of Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, June 2004 Giorgio Bassani’s Ferrara may be, as an American critic has called it, a “semiotic labyrinth,” but…
Reflections
Reflections on an Italian Jewish life From: The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy, Stanislao G. Pugliese, editor, 2002 I am an Italian Jew. My forefathers settled in…