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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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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…

Essays February 12, 2025

The War Fronts of Helena Salem

Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film “I’m Still Here.” Eunice was the wife of the politician Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and…

News February 3, 2025

A NEW GUIDE TO JEWISH PUGLIA

A book published by the Jewish Museum of Lecce opens doors to the multifaceted and fascinating history of the Apulia region. Fabrizio Ghio and Fabrizio Lelli, The Jewish Salento: Travel…

Books, News January 19, 2025

What’s in a Book?

Book trading and the making of open communities. The passion for books and the belief in their centrality in passing knowledge and creating personal connections is at the core of…

Books in Italian December 23, 2024

Let There Be Light

A new book explores Levi’s capacity to combine the cognitive power of science with religion’s forces of enchantment and ritual.  Whoever said that a book must be long and weighty…