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…
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
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Swahili Lit Festival
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Features
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…
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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Italian Chazanut
The Erna Finci Viterbi Italian Chazanut Round Table A resource on Italian Jewish liturgy and music On February 14, 2016 Centro Primo Levi presented its new project dedicated to the…
Press on Primo Levi’s Complete Works
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The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italy
NeMLA Journal: Special Issue: The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italy Click here to read the issue More than any other religious or ethnic minority in the history of the Bel…
CDEC Seeks New Director
Director of the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC Deadline: February, 28th The Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC onlus is currently looking for a high profile candidate…
Medieval Mediterranean
Individuals and Legal Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC – March 7-8, 2016 While there is a vast literature on medieval Jewish and Islamic…
Representing Perpetrators
Call for Papers: Representing Perpetrators of Mass Violence. Utrecht University, 31 August–3 September, 2016. Organizers: Susanne C. Knittel and Uğur Ümit Üngör Keynote speakers: Prof. Alexander Hinton (Rutgers University) Milo Rau,…