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Books February 10, 2026

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…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“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”. …

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Essays June 24, 2020

Never Again What?

On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking   One hundred years ago Primo Levi was...

Books June 24, 2020

An extraordinary gift

Centro Primo Levi, has recently received a wonderful gift: a rare first edition of Primo Levi’s...

Books, Interviews May 12, 2020

Reluctant Jews

Sandro Gerbi in Conversation with Alessandro Cassin AC: You have vast experience in biographical writing of...

Essays April 20, 2020

Weightless

… our poor body, so vulnerable to swords, to guns and to viruses, is space-proof. Republished...