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”. …
On September 19 at 6:00 pm the English edition of the 500th Anniversary exhibition on the...
Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History A call for papers. International conference. 13-15 March 2017. POLIN...
Italy’s Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective 6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow ...
Book: The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression....
Seventy years ago, on July 23, 1944, Jewish life on this Island of roses came to...
In Italy, a Unique Connection Between Women and the Torah. Creating special Torah coverings—often from discarded scraps...
A Primo Levi Atlas: Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo, by Marco Belpoliti Marco Belpoliti has...
The historian Carlo Ginzburg talks about his publications and his historical method of microhistory, which he pioneered....