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Let There Be Light

A new book explores Levi’s capacity to combine the cognitive power of science with religion’s forces of enchantment and ritual.  Whoever said that a book must be long and weighty…

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,…

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

Are We All Faust?

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed […] dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard … (Primo Levi, The Periodic Table)…

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.”…