Features

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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

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.”…

Books May 3, 2024

Biography of a Lost World

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…

Latest Articles

Academia September 10, 2015

Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism (1780-1950)

Seminar, Oxford: Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism (1780-1950) Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: the Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950) October 2016 to March 2017 Project Leaders:  Abigail Green (Brasenose…

Academia, Books September 10, 2015

Un “plan Marshall juif”

Scott-Weaver on Hobson Faure, ‘Un “plan Marshall juif”: La présence juive américaine en France après la Shoah, 1944-1954’  American Jewish Philanthropy and Jewish Reconstruction in Postwar France Laura Hobson Faure’s…

Academia September 10, 2015

Transcultural memory

Call for papers: Transcultural memory and reception in Europe – 3rd plenary conference, Sofia, 18-21 April 2016 The ISTME network aims to investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe today. Studying…

News September 10, 2015

The Italian Synagogue in Jerusalem

An early 18th century Rococo synagogue last used in Italy in World War I, it was reconstructed in Israel in 1952 and has since formed the heart of Jerusalem’s Italian-Jewish…

Books, News July 29, 2015

The Valmadonna Library

The Writing on the Wall. A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library PREFACE Now the wise ones . . . should read the writing [on the wall]…

News July 29, 2015

A Virtual Tour

A Virtual Tour of the Jewish Museum of Rome The newly designed portal of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities (www.ucei.net) offers access to different sectors of communal institutions…