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
Thanks Goodness I Am Here
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41. Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021 In July 1939, Mario and Clara…
Italy and the Jews Beyond the Borders
Michele Sarfatti I confini di una persecuzione-Il fascismo e gli ebrei fuori d’Italia (1939-1943), Viella, Rome, 2023 Adding to his decades-long seminal research on Italian Fascism, Michel Sarfatti’s new book…
The Grand Counsel Against the Jews
Giorgio Fabre. Il Gran Consiglio Contro Gli Ebrei 6-7 0ttobre 1938: Mussolini Balbo e il regime. Il Mulino, Bolgna 2023. Through an in-depth analysis of recently emerged documents, Giorgio…
Davide Rodogno’s Night on Earth
A complex and fascinating mosaic of the Western Humanitarian Organizations activities in the Near East After World War One One of the most impactful aspects of the International Museum of…
The Last Muslims in Italy
During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does not mention Lucera Saracenorum (a Latin placename meaning “Lucera of the Saracens”) in his writings,…
Always Remember Your Name
A memoir by Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Forward by Ruth Franklin Andra and Tatiana Bucci, Always Remember Your Name, translated by Ann Goldstein. Astra House By all rights, this book…