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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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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…

Essays, News July 29, 2015

From the Front of the Great War

Letters from Italian Jewish soldiers in World War I – who would die in the Holocaust The Anticolis, for instance, had 13 children, of whom four would fight in WWI:…

News July 29, 2015

Virtual Ghetto

A New Attraction at the Jewish Museum of Rome: A Virtual Tour of the Ghetto in the Middle Ages. Pope Paul created the ghetto in 1555 to keep the Jews…

Essays July 29, 2015

Laura Fermi, Ordinary Genius

“Put your grandmother Laura first, ahead of Enrico,” I can still hear my mother urging me. These were not exactly Nella Fermi Weiner’s last words, but she said them to…

Books, Essays June 8, 2015

Quaestio De Centauris

In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s complete works will be available in English for the first time. Norton’s Liveright imprint…

Books June 8, 2015

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…