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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In this conversation Judge Guido Calabresi, a long time friend of Centro Primo Levi, shares stories of his family’s flight from Fascist Italy —from Milan to Yale— and the ways…
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Venice, the Jews and Europe
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Sites of Conflicted History
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Italy’s Decade of War
Italy’s Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective 6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Keynote Speakers: Professor MacGregor Knox, LSE Professor Nicola Labanca, Università degli Studi di Siena…
The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe
Book: The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression. Combining Viewpoints on a Controversial Story. Editors: Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016…