Yesterday and Today
The way our societies confront the plight of the millions of refugees from various areas of...
Essays
Paper Lives
“My humble request to Your Excellency”. Brief accounts of life and death in Italy. Based on...
A Chronicle of Jewish Life Under Fascism
A compelling new approach to the chronicle of Jewish life in Italy under Fascism From the...
Arnaldo Momigliano
On July 22, 1955, the Times Literary Supplement welcomed the appearance of a new scholarly book...
A Piedmontese View of History
I was born in Caraglio, Cuneo, in September 1908. There I lived with my family and...
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano 1908-1987 Arnaldo Dante Momigliano arrived at Oxford in 1939. In the previous fall...
Primo Levi, A family Memory
Opening remarks at Third Annual Symposium on Primo Levi I feel both honored and inadequate for...
Statelessness
The Tragic, Enduring Relevance of Arendt’s Work on Statelness While Hannah Arendt is most known for her reflections on totalitarianism...
Venice: A Symbol of Jewish History
Should we assume, as we usually assume in ordinary parlance, that the word “symbol” signifies something...
Primo Levi’s Love
In the chapter Phosphorus in the Periodic Table Levi tells us of a love story that...