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Books, Essays 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

Thruth 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”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

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…

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Academia February 24, 2016

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…

Academia February 24, 2016

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,…

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…