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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Truth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

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Books January 7, 2015

Sixth from 1939

Sixth from 1939 by Marcella Olschki, Keith Bostford (Translator),  The Toby Press 2002. Marcella Olschki, Terza liceo1939,  Milano-Roma,...

Books, News December 6, 2014

Giovanni Enriques

Centro Primo Levi congratulates Sandro Gerbi On November 21st, the cultural historian and journalist Sandro Gerbi...

Academia November 26, 2014

USHMM Felloship

Approaching Deadline: 2015-2016 Fellowship- Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: 2015–16 FELLOWSHIPS, link Deadline for Applications: November...