A Woman’s Resistance
The woman who invented the Italian resistance Ian Thomson reviews a Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance, by Ada Gobetti, translated and edited by Jomarie Alano. This…
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Ethiopia 1935
Ethiopia is one of only two African countries that managed to escape colonization during Europe’s great scramble for Africa in the 1870s. Italy, a latecomer to the colonial enterprise, was…
The Mysteries of Italian Jewry
Many years ago, at a lunch in Princeton, a venerable professor asked me whether Jews still existed in Italy. Was it a justified question? In a sense, yes. Of…
Oratorio di Castro: 100 Years
L’oratorio Di Castro, Cento anni di ebraismo a Roma (1914-2014) Her name was Grazia Pontecorvo, and she was the widow of Salvatore Di Castro. She died in 1909 and left…
Isacco Lampronti
Contemporary Science and Jewish Law in the Eyes of Isaac Lampronti of Ferrara and Some of His Contemporaries The Jewish community of Ferrara in the first half of the eighteen…
Did the Germans Do It All?
Did the Germans Do It All? The Italian Shoah in International Historiography (1946-1986) This essay examines how the main historical writings in languages other than Italian (mostly English) published in…
Agostino
Moravia’s Bildungs-novella Gets New Life Sometimes a new translation can unlock the hidden beauty of a work that had previously not gained its deserved attention. This is what happened with…
Rabbini italiani
Chevrà Sharè Shamaìm is a study group led by Rav David E. Sciunnach. It gathers every week to study the Torah and its commentaries and maintains a website dedicated to…
Farewell to Bianca Guidetti Serra
Centro Primo Levi New York wishes to express our deepest solidarity and sorrow to the family, colleagues and friends of Bianca Guidetti Serra, (Torino, August 19, 1919 – Torino, June…
The Time Fate Gave Us: 1938-1947
Group photo: 1938 This is the story of a group of young, ordinary people who happened to live, as Silvio Ortona put it, at an extraordinary time and who had…