A Woman’s Resistance
A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
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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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
Mauro Canali, The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini: The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime, Palgrave 2024 On June 10, 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, a young member of the Italian Parliament and Secretary…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Edith Bruck’s Short Stories
Edith Bruck, This Darkness Will Never End, Paul Dry Books, 2025, Translated by Jeanne Bonner | 187 pp. In 1944, at the age of 13, Edith Bruck was deported to…
Swahili Lit Festival
As Primo Levi’s book is becoming available to Swahili readers, we would like to welcome on these pages news about Swahili literature, translation, book publishing and literary festivals. This interview…
Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
Historiography in Motion: Jews and State Building
A new book will be presented at Bookhouse on March 18th. Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond. Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano…
The War Fronts of Helena Salem
Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film “I’m Still Here.” Eunice was the wife of the politician Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and…