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News April 15, 2025

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…

Books March 5, 2025

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…

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,…

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Academia, Essays April 29, 2016

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…

News April 29, 2016

Pius XII and the Holocaust

Pius XII and the Holocaust. Current State of Research. On March 8-9, 2009  Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research  and the Salesian Theological Institute of Saints Peter and Paul…

Academia April 29, 2016

Migration, Exchange, Collision

Call for Paper “Memory Moves: Migration, Exchange, Collision” The Memory Studies Network of the German Studies Association (GSA) invites panel or individual paper proposals for the 2016 GSA Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, from Sept. 29th to…

Academia April 29, 2016

Local and Sectional Memories

Call for Contributor – Remembering the Second World War – ‘Local and Sectional Memories’ Following a last-minute withdrawal, I am seeking a replacement contributor for an edited book on the…