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Books February 10, 2026

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…

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”. …

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News February 28, 2016

Who is That Warrior?

Confronting Italy’s colonial ‘adventure’ in Ethiopia The most startling moment in “If Only I Were That...

Books, News February 24, 2016

Italian Chazanut

The Erna Finci Viterbi Italian Chazanut Round Table A resource on Italian Jewish liturgy and music...

Academia, News February 24, 2016

CDEC Seeks New Director

Director of the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC Deadline: February, 28th The Fondazione Centro...

Academia February 24, 2016

Medieval Mediterranean

Individuals and Legal Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC...

Academia February 24, 2016

Representing Perpetrators

Call for Papers: Representing Perpetrators of Mass Violence. Utrecht University, 31 August–3 September, 2016. Organizers: Susanne C....