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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

Academia, Books 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”. …

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Essays September 12, 2014

Amelia Rosselli

Exile. from: La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana At first glance and especially from a...

News July 11, 2014

Agostino

Moravia’s Bildungs-novella Gets New Life Sometimes a new translation can unlock the hidden beauty of a...

Essays July 11, 2014

On Sabato Morais

Tradition in the New World: Rethinking Sabato Morais This Review of Arthur Kiron‘s Golden Ages, Promised...

News June 27, 2014

Rabbini italiani

Chevrà Sharè Shamaìm is a study group led by Rav David E. Sciunnach. It gathers every...

Books June 25, 2014

Medieval Salento

The Medieval Salento
: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Located in...

Essays June 25, 2014

Yohanan Alemanno

Cultural Relationships between Jews and Non-Jews in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Yohanan Alemanno This talk...