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…
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…
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…
“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”. …
A Virtual Tour of the Jewish Museum of Rome The newly designed portal of the Union...
Letters from Italian Jewish soldiers in World War I – who would die in the Holocaust...
A New Attraction at the Jewish Museum of Rome: A Virtual Tour of the Ghetto in...
“Put your grandmother Laura first, ahead of Enrico,” I can still hear my mother urging me....
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s...
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under...
Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915–1952, Cornell University Press, 2015 During the interwar period, Japanese...
Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, Toronto University Press, 2007 The interest in Fascist editorial and...