Primo Levi, A family Memory
Opening remarks at Third Annual Symposium on Primo Levi I feel both honored and inadequate for...
Essays
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...
Fascist Antisemitism in the US
Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United States Courtesy American Jewish Archives Journal, 56...
Primo Levi Anthropologist of Normality
I first met Primo Levi in February 1963, a month before the release of his book...
Italy and the Voice of America
The Italian Section of the Voice of America during WWII On the evening of January 20,...
Rhodes: Our Piece of the Earth
Seventy years ago, on July 23, 1944, Jewish life on this Island of roses came to...
Women and the Torah
In Italy, a Unique Connection Between Women and the Torah. Creating special Torah coverings—often from discarded scraps...
On the Dark Side of History
The historian Carlo Ginzburg talks about his publications and his historical method of microhistory, which he pioneered....