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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 March 13, 2016

The City and the Ghetto

The City, the Ghetto and Two Books. Venice and Jewish Early Modernity The most Serene Republic and the ghetto “And amongst the cities of Europe, Rome and Venice are the…

Academia March 13, 2016

Preaching in the Venetian Ghetto

Preaching in the Venetian Ghetto: The Sermons of Leon Modena   The personality of the Venetian Rabbi Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena (1571–1648) has intrigued scholars both past and present.[1] Widely divergent…

News March 6, 2016

Humanism and Hebrew Culture

Humanism and Hebrew Culture in the Italian Renaissance 10 March 2016 – International Studies Institute, Florence Palazzo Rucellai – Via della Vigna Nuova 18 – 50123 Firenze +39 055-2645910 – info@isiflorence.org…

Academia, Books March 3, 2016

A Third Model of Jewish Enlightenment?

Francesca Bregoli. Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014 Despite its status as the second-largest Jewish community in western Europe in the eighteenth…

Academia March 3, 2016

“Non contrarii, ma diversi”

“Non contrarii, ma diversi” : the question of minority in the eyes of Christians and Jews in Italy (early 15th-mid 18th century) Dead line for submitting papers : April 15,…

Essays, News March 2, 2016

An Evening for Bianca

On January 25th, 2016, was a special  evening at the Italian Cultural Institute. The occasion was  the launching of  Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca Guidetti Serra, CPL Editions, 2015….