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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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

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.”…

Books May 3, 2024

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…

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News November 6, 2014

A Woman’s Resistance

The woman who invented the Italian resistance Ian Thomson reviews a Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance, by Ada Gobetti, translated and edited by Jomarie Alano. This…

Academia October 22, 2014

USHMM Summer Research Workshops

USHMM Summer Research Workshops The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from Workshop Coordinator(s) to conduct two-week research workshops…

Academia October 22, 2014

Italy and the Second World War

Call for Papers, “Italy and the Second World War” (Brill Publishing) (Deadline: 31 June 2015) This volume is a collection of essays that focus on the Italian experience of war…

Academia October 22, 2014

Caucus on Italian-Jewish Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS – AAIS Caucus on Italian-Jewish Studies AAIS Annual Meeting in Boulder, CO (March 26-28, 2015) 1. Nazione ebrea e nuova Italia. Was the project of Italian statehood…

Academia October 22, 2014

Beyond Camps

Conference: Beyond Camps and Forced Labor Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution Fifth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Imperial War Museum…

Academia October 22, 2014

Viterbi Visiting Professorship

Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the Viterbi Visiting Professorship in Mediterranean Jewish Studies during the 2015-16 academic year. Rank…