The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
David is never fulfilled nor satisfied with himself. He is constantly searching for new emotions, unexpected...
A Historiographic Revisitation Based on OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Documents Liliana Picciotto, Yad Vashem Studies,...
Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness...
Due vite (Two Lives) by Emanuele Trevi is a luminous, beautifully written wisdom book. It was deservedly...
The graphic artist’s Carbon illustrates an element’s journey from a star to his brain We are...
Born in Modena to a family of court jewelers who had maintained their private synagogue for...
A conversation with Marina Caffiero. Your best known research focuses on the history of forced baptisms...
Rewarding memoirs, like portraits, introduce us to a central character interacting with his or her world...