Biography of a Lost World
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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These Thoughts of Mine
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The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’ “Her Side of The Story”
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Amos Gitai, Sheltering from War
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On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”
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Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review
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These Thoughts of Mine
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….
The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…
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The way our societies confront the plight of the millions of refugees from various areas of the world escaping famine, ethnic, religious and political persecution, hopelessness and war, will be…
Paper Lives
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Gino Bartali, Bibliographical Sources
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A Chronicle of Jewish Life Under Fascism
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Under Glass: Museums and the Display of History.
This year, together with its academic partners, Centro Primo Levi invites scholars and the public to discuss the idea of displaying history in museums and the alternate waves of museum projects (realized and not) focusing on…