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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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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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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Features
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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The language that lived twice
— Though, we usually don’t review books available only in Italian, in this case, the approach to a familiar subject is so remarkably fresh that I trust will interest our…
Letter to a Friend in Gaza
Letter to a Friend in Gaza: From Film to Theater Amos Gitai’s stage version of Letter to a Friend In Gaza, which had its World Premiere at Spoleto Festival…
Primo Levi at 100
Primo Levi’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated around the world through lectures, book presentations, staged readings, and academic seminars. Drawing on its ongoing effort to offer a platform to new…
Current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti
Journal of Modern Italian Studies: On the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws. Articles reflecting the current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti. Annalisa Capristo and…
Corrado Cagli’s Drawings in the Collection of the New York Public Library
In 1948, the New York City Ballet presented The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, a Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’ Medici whose refrain “del doman non v’è certezza” (the future…
Stella Levi at the Scuola d’Italia
The long collaboration between Centro Primo Levi and La Scuola D’Italia continues this year with an exhibit on The Racial Laws and the Persecution of the Jews (curated by CDEC)…