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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”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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Academia, Essays October 10, 2017

Ghetto and Not

The Relationship between Jews and Christians. Toward a Redefinition of the Ghetto In Italy, during the past two decades, Jewish history has pervasively captured the attention of researchers – even…

Academia October 3, 2017

Roman Policy Towards the Jews

Roman Policy Towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome During the First Century C. E. Tant de causes secretes se mêlent souvent à la cause apparente, tant de…

News August 30, 2017

Rome Lab Calendar

September 14 – 6:30 pm Singing the Sacred Text. Cantor Alberto Funaro October 18 – 6:30 pm A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem. Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of…