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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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News January 15, 2016

Who Owns the Holocaust?

History, Memory, and the Question of “Who Owns the Holocaust?”: Thoughts on Manuela Consonni’s L’eclisse dell’antifascismo The following are some not-quite-random thoughts inspired by Manuela Consonni’s new book, L’eclisse dell’antifasicsmo: Resistenza,…

Essays January 15, 2016

Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival

In a story from 1976 entitled “Decoding” (Decodificazione), Primo Levi investigates the appearance of swastikas and Fascist graffiti in a small Italian town.[1] Discovering they were made by a disaffected teenager,…

Academia, Books, News January 15, 2016

Science Fiction?

Francesco Cassata delivers the 2015 Primo Levi Lecture   Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila,…

Academia, News November 11, 2015

Primo Levi: Tradition, Translation, Transmission

Universität Innsbruck (Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) with the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Department of Romance and Latin American Studies) November 17-19, 2015 – Claudiasaal – Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3/2, Innsbruck, Contacts: aiani@uibk.ac.at, italienzentrum@uibk.ac.at This conference…

Academia November 11, 2015

Viterbi Visiting Professorship

Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies during the 2016-17…

News November 8, 2015

The Venice Ghetto at 500

The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto A look back on the 500-year history and intellectual life of one of the world’s oldest Jewish quarters  Link Five hundred years ago,…