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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Let There Be Light
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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Features
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.”…
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
Architectural and Urban Histories
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under Italian fascist rule lie questions of political allegiance and valence. How ‘fascist’ were the…
The Fascist Effect
Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915–1952, Cornell University Press, 2015 During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between…
Censorship
Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, Toronto University Press, 2007 The interest in Fascist editorial and ideological politics has produced some excellent work in the last decade, including Giorgio Fabre’s…
The Rebuilder
By reimagining landmark New York buildings like the Astor Library, which became the Public Theater, Giorgio Cavaglieri championed the architectural preservation that shaped the modern city “Architecture,” said Vincent…
Venice
A Jewish Ghetto Worth Saving. The ghetto that trapped Venice’s Jews is getting a renovation after 500 years Something like Venice no one can do. Only God. The greatest achievement for…
Translations in Fascist Italy
In the 1930s translation became a key issue in the cultural politics of the Fascist regime due to the fact that Italy was publishing more translations than any other country…