A NEW GUIDE TO JEWISH PUGLIA
A book published by the Jewish Museum of Lecce opens doors to the multifaceted and fascinating history of the Apulia region. Fabrizio Ghio and Fabrizio Lelli, The Jewish Salento: Travel…
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What’s in a Book?
Book trading and the making of open communities. The passion for books and the belief in their centrality in passing knowledge and creating personal connections is at the core of…
Let There Be Light
A new book explores Levi’s capacity to combine the cognitive power of science with religion’s forces of enchantment and ritual. Whoever said that a book must be long and weighty…
The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy: David W. Amram and Beulah Brylawski
Amidst growing instability and divide in American society, cultural uncertainty, and perhaps a surplus of time, revisionist histories of Jewish learning are sprouting everywhere. The lives of women and men…
WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…
A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
Why Was the Libyan Holocaust Taken Out of Primo Levi’s Influential Book in Israel? Prof. Claudia Rosenzweig’s well-worn Hebrew copy of Primo Levi’s “If This is a Man” – which…
Davide Rodogno’s Night on Earth
A complex and fascinating mosaic of the Western Humanitarian Organizations activities in the Near East After World War One One of the most impactful aspects of the International Museum of…
Franz Kafka: With Ink and Graphite
I love and admire Kafka because he writes in a way that is totally closed off to me. (Primo Levi) Franz Kafka The Drawings. Edited by Andreas Kilcher. Yale University…
The Jesuit
Nicola Chiaromonte, The Partisan Review, February 1948 We had been at school together, at the Collegio Massimo, the time-honored Jesuit college where the sons of the Roman middle class sit…
The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music
Centro Primo Levi New York partners with Centro Leo Levi in Florence to invite all to listen and sing at www.jewishitalianmusic.org The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music is a…