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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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Books September 10, 2015

Shadal on Exodus

Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865),...

Academia, Books September 10, 2015

The Historical Uncanny

Vicarious Witnessing at the Boundaries of Holocaust Memory The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics...

Academia September 10, 2015

Transcultural memory

Call for papers: Transcultural memory and reception in Europe – 3rd plenary conference, Sofia, 18-21 April 2016 The...