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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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News October 27, 2016

E le acque si calmarono

Exhibition. October 27-January 27 Florence National Library and Italian National Jewish Heritage Foundation An exquisite exhibition...

Books October 16, 2016

Ariosto and Tasso

Curiosities of Literature It surprises one to find among the literary Italians the merits of Ariosto...

News September 27, 2016

A Summary of Press

First Readings of The Complete Works of Primo Levi: A Summary of a Broad Range of...

Academia, Books September 22, 2016

Anthology

A Primo Levi Anthology Collected from various sources on the occasion of the presentation of Primo...