WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…
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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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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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Features
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…
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…
Latest Articles
EHRI Fellowship 2016-2018 offer a stage at CDEC
EHRI invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018) The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to…
The Enigma
The Enigma of a Rare Jewish Sixteenth Century Portrait from Cremona Recently, while visiting an art fair in New York, I was surprised and intrigued by a painting by Antonio…
More than meets the page: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s–1700s
Call for papers. University of Warwick, 4 March 2017 Key-note speakers: Dr Marika Keblusek (Leiden University) and Dr Angela McShane (RCA/V&A) For Italy, the ‘long seventeenth century’ was a period of…
Course in medieval medical manuscripts in Judeo-Arabic
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries announce the launch on June 1 of their…
Primo Levi at the United Nations: Stella Levi’s Opening Remarks
Under Secretary Gallach, UN Representatives, distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen, good evening. As a board member of CPL NY, which I was asked to represent this evening, I am honored…
Primo Levi at the United Nations: Roger Cohen.
Primo Levi survived Auschwitz through a double act of profound humanity: his ability even in the darkest days to see in fellow prisoners “men and not things” and so, as…