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Books, News November 22, 2024

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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

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.”…

Books May 3, 2024

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…

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Essays, News April 8, 2016

Holocaust Music

Why the new “Holocaust Music” is an insult to music and the the victims of the Shoah   In the never-ending search for ways to remember the Holocaust, the newest…

Academia, News March 20, 2016

Inspired by the Archives

Manifesto of Italian Archivists www.new.archivisti2016.it 1) Why are we worried? 2) What is the use of archives? 3) What is the role of archivists? 4) Why are archivists invisible? 5)…

Academia March 13, 2016

The City and the Ghetto

The City, the Ghetto and Two Books. Venice and Jewish Early Modernity The most Serene Republic and the ghetto “And amongst the cities of Europe, Rome and Venice are the…

Academia March 13, 2016

Preaching in the Venetian Ghetto

Preaching in the Venetian Ghetto: The Sermons of Leon Modena   The personality of the Venetian Rabbi Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena (1571–1648) has intrigued scholars both past and present.[1] Widely divergent…

News March 6, 2016

Humanism and Hebrew Culture

Humanism and Hebrew Culture in the Italian Renaissance 10 March 2016 – International Studies Institute, Florence Palazzo Rucellai – Via della Vigna Nuova 18 – 50123 Firenze +39 055-2645910 – info@isiflorence.org…

Academia, Books March 3, 2016

A Third Model of Jewish Enlightenment?

Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014 Despite its status as the second-largest Jewish community in western Europe in the eighteenth…