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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, Books February 24, 2016

Emissaries from the Holy Land

Matthias B. Lehmann. Emissaries from the Holy Land: The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford…

News January 22, 2016

Giorno della Memoria in New York

Events in New York City       January 25 at 6:00 pm Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 686 Park Avenue, New York Book discussion: Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca…

Academia, News January 15, 2016

SICSA Fellowship

The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Announces The Felix Posen Fellowship Post-Doctoral / Junior Faculty The Felix Posen Post-Doctoral / Junior Faculty Fellowship is intended for…

News January 15, 2016

The Museum of Italian Judaism Seeks Director

In 2003, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage issued the plan to develop the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara. During the years since, the foundation in charge of implementing the plan has created programs…