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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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News February 28, 2016

Who is That Warrior?

Confronting Italy’s colonial ‘adventure’ in Ethiopia The most startling moment in “If Only I Were That Warrior”—and there are many startling moments—might be when Giuseppe, an Italian agronomist and military…

Academia, News February 28, 2016

The Ghetto Reconsidered

The Ghetto Reconsidered: Minority and Ethnic Quarters in Text and Images On the occasion of the 500th Anniversary of the establishment of the Venice Ghetto (1516) by a decree of the Serenissima,…

Books, News February 24, 2016

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…

Books February 24, 2016

Press on Primo Levi’s Complete Works

Primo Levi’s Complete Works: Selected Press 1/15/16    Public Books / review “Monumental. . . . Lively, poised, brand-new versions of all Levi’s books and collections, many complete here for…

Academia, News February 24, 2016

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…