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…
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…
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…
“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”. …
Among the always impressive roster of exhibitions on display in Rome, La Menorà: Culto, Storia e...
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia — and consequently New York City at large—...
Gathered tonight and tomorrow around tables all over the world to celebrate Passover, Jews will pick...
The Golden Haggadah is one of the finest of the surviving Haggadah manuscripts from medieval Spain....
Before dealing with specific minorities in Venice, it is necessary to clarify what is meant...
Donald J. Trump’s election, inauguration, first appointments, and presidential decrees, have caused extreme disquiet to those...
The way our societies confront the plight of the millions of refugees from various areas of...
“My humble request to Your Excellency”. Brief accounts of life and death in Italy. Based on...