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…
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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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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
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Swahili Lit Festival
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Primo Levi in Swahili
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Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building
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The War Fronts of Helena Salem
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A NEW GUIDE TO JEWISH PUGLIA
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Let There Be Light
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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,…
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana
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Never Again What?
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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…