SICSA Fellowship
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Announces The Felix Posen Fellowship Post-Doctoral / Junior Faculty The Felix Posen Post-Doctoral / Junior Faculty Fellowship is intended for…
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The Museum of Italian Judaism Seeks Director
In 2003, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage issued the plan to develop the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara. During the years since, the foundation in charge of implementing the plan has created programs…
Who Owns the Holocaust?
History, Memory, and the Question of “Who Owns the Holocaust?”: Thoughts on Manuela Consonni’s L’eclisse dell’antifascismo The following are some not-quite-random thoughts inspired by Manuela Consonni’s new book, L’eclisse dell’antifasicsmo: Resistenza,…
Science Fiction?
Francesco Cassata delivers the 2015 Primo Levi Lecture Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila,…
Primo Levi: Tradition, Translation, Transmission
Universität Innsbruck (Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) with the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Department of Romance and Latin American Studies) November 17-19, 2015 – Claudiasaal – Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3/2, Innsbruck, Contacts: aiani@uibk.ac.at, italienzentrum@uibk.ac.at This conference…
The Venice Ghetto at 500
The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto A look back on the 500-year history and intellectual life of one of the world’s oldest Jewish quarters Link Five hundred years ago,…
The Missing Jewish Books
The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome. Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust. Link “This book is entirely the work of my hands, for I…
The Bible and Its Translations
Biblical Translations in Antiquity Seminar 1: Ancient translations curated by Dorota Hartman November 19, 2015 Riccardo Maisano, Introduction Raffaele Esposito, In the Beginning: The Hebrew Bible’s Text Anna Passoni Dell’Acqua,…
Indifference Kills
After a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Milan, New York Times op-ed contributor Roger Cohen ponders on the plight of the Syrian refugees and reminds us of how the…
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The CPL EDITIONS App is finally online and can be downloaded at no cost from iTunes and Googlepaly. It is a new and convenient way to update readers on…