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”. …
Centro Primo Levi launched CPL Editions at SF Vanni, Andrea Ragusa’s historical Village store and publisher...
I want to thank the Primo Levi Center for giving me the opportunity to read this...
Italy’s unique form of Judaism bows to Israeli Orthodoxy Young rabbis educated abroad, with a stricter...
Born on April 30, 1915, in the Tuscan port city of Livorno, Elio Toaff was the...
The Cinecittà Refugee Camp (1944–1950) Yes, they have sacked and destroyed it; the few remaining buildings...
Amelia Rosselli’s Serie ospedaliera among the poet’s most haunting, imaginatively intense and formally rigorous collections, has...
Amelia Rosselli’s experimental approach to poetry and trilingual interweaving have only recently been discovered by readers...
Bound in Venice: The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book, Europa Editions 2013 A...