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
La Rassegna Invites Contributions
«La Rassegna Mensile di Israel» (RMI), founded in 1925 by Dante Lattes and Alfonso Pacifici, is one of the main academic and cultural journal devoted to Italian Judaism RMI accepts submissions…
Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics: The Painter as Writer
What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer? Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of…
Fear of Freedom: With the Essay “Fear of Painting”
Carlo Levi was a Renaissance Man without a Renaissance: A painter, a writer of essays and fiction, a physician and politician (in the order of his talents), he came of…
Fox on Linhard, ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory
Spain’s Jewish Absence In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Hannah Arendt noted that “even Franco, in a country where there are neither Jews nor a Jewish question,…
Sephardic, North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Communities in North America deadline for submission extended
Ira Robinson The deadline has been extended for scholars interested in participating in an international conference sponsored by the Dahan Centre, Bar-Ilan University, and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University,…
Vanni’s Opening
Centro Primo Levi launched CPL Editions at SF Vanni, Andrea Ragusa’s historical Village store and publisher on 12th Street. By choosing this symbolic place to begin its publishing venture, CPL…