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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Let There Be Light
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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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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
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…
Primo Levi at the United Nations: Maaza Mengiste.
We see the little boy at the same time as we understand the tragedy. He is face down on the beach, dressed in a red shirt and dark blue trousers,…
Primo Levi at the United Nations: Francesco Cassata.
“Best Is Water” is a dystopian short story from the collection “Flaw of Form” published in 1971. Ironically, referring in the title to Pindar’s Olympian Odes, Levi describes the devastating…
Primo Levi at the United Nations: Dario Disegni.
As President of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah and Vice President of the International Primo Levi Studies Center, it is a true honor for me to…
From Odessa to Florence
From Odessa to Florence: Elena Comparetti Raffalovich. “Non capisco come possono affollare chiese e sinagoghe, quando si puo avere come tempio l’universo interno Abstract In the nineteenth and the first…