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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 November 11, 2015

Viterbi Visiting Professorship

Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies during the 2016-17…

News November 8, 2015

The Venice Ghetto at 500

The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto A look back on the 500-year history and intellectual life of one of the world’s oldest Jewish quarters  Link Five hundred years ago,…

Academia November 7, 2015

The Fascist Concentration Camps

From Internment to Deportation: Concentration Camps and Jews in Italy during World War II The internment of civilians in the Italian fascist-monarchic period (1940-1945) Just before fascist Italy entered World…

Books, News November 7, 2015

The Missing Jewish Books

The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome. Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust. Link “This book is entirely the work of my hands, for I…

Academia, News October 11, 2015

The Bible and Its Translations

Biblical Translations in Antiquity Seminar 1: Ancient translations curated by Dorota Hartman November 19, 2015 Riccardo Maisano, Introduction Raffaele Esposito, In the Beginning: The Hebrew Bible’s Text Anna Passoni Dell’Acqua,…

News October 10, 2015

Indifference Kills

After a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Milan, New York Times op-ed contributor Roger Cohen ponders on the plight of the Syrian refugees and reminds us of how the…