On the Dark Side of History
The historian Carlo Ginzburg talks about his publications and his historical method of microhistory, which he pioneered....
Essays
The Enigma
The Enigma of a Rare Jewish Sixteenth Century Portrait from Cremona Recently, while visiting an art...
From Odessa to Florence
From Odessa to Florence: Elena Comparetti Raffalovich. “Non capisco come possono affollare chiese e sinagoghe, quando...
After Mussolini
After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy. In 1922, in a Vienna where...
From Musa Dagh to Masada
How Franz Werfel’s novel about the Armenian Genocide inspired the Warsaw Ghetto fighters and the Zionist...
Holocaust Music
Why the new “Holocaust Music” is an insult to music and the the victims of the...
An Evening for Bianca
On January 25th, 2016, was a special evening at the Italian Cultural Institute. The occasion was ...
Writing for Justice: Rethinking the Saga of Edgardo Mortara
“A masterful examination of what must be one of the most intriguing figures of mid-nineteenth-century...
Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival
In a story from 1976 entitled “Decoding” (Decodificazione), Primo Levi investigates the appearance of swastikas and...
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah: The Catholic Press in Italy, 1945-1947 Relatively...