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,…
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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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Features
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…
Biography of a Lost World
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…
Latest Articles
A Note From a Refugee of 75 Years Ago
While browsing the files of the UNRRA archive looking for data on the DP camps at Santa Maria di Leuca, I found this memo that a refugee named Ladislav Lang…
La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana
At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on the front porch of the little house at 9 Clark Court in Larchmont, seemed…
Never Again What?
On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking One hundred years ago Primo Levi was born in Turin, the first-born son of a middle-class Jewish-Italian family. They were turbulent…
An extraordinary gift
Centro Primo Levi, has recently received a wonderful gift: a rare first edition of Primo Levi’s Se Questo è un uomo ( If This Is a Man) , published by…
Stateless: A Russian Childhood in Fascist Italy
Childhood – growing up in Italy 1925-39 Marita Dresner In 1924, when I was born in Moscow, my father was working at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1925, we…
Reluctant Jews
Sandro Gerbi in Conversation with Alessandro Cassin AC: You have vast experience in biographical writing of different types, however writing about oneself is a different enterprise. How did you conceive…