A Woman’s Resistance
A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
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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Primo Levi: An Identikit
Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An Identikit, a product of…
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Due vite (Two Lives) by Emanuele Trevi is a luminous, beautifully written wisdom book. It was deservedly awarded the 2021 Premio Strega, Italy’s major literary prize, and awaits the foresight of…
A chemist’s book changed John Barnett’s life.
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Angelo Fortunato Formiggini: An Italian Publisher
Born in Modena to a family of court jewelers who had maintained their private synagogue for generations, Angelo Fortunato Formiggini (1878–1938) was a publisher first in Modena (1908–11), then in…
Slavery and Conversion in Papal Rome
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Paying attention to the tonality of life: Marina Jarre’s Distant Fathers
Rewarding memoirs, like portraits, introduce us to a central character interacting with his or her world at a specific time in history. We are drawn to a memoir when all…