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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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Books March 6, 2015

Venetian Ephemera

Salman on Salzberg, ‘Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice’ This work on cheap print fits into a long historiographic tradition that started with such important pioneers as Robert…

Interviews February 28, 2015

“Ci è andata bene,” We Were Lucky

Alessandro Cassin in conversation with Roberto Levi “Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment, despite all logic; and for all that, compassion eludes…

Interviews February 12, 2015

Conversation with Olga Ragusa

A conversation with Olga Ragusa – A lifelong engagement with the printed word: reading, writing and teaching. The elder of Andrea Ragusa’s daughters, Olga, arrived in New York with her…

Books, News January 23, 2015

Monumenti per difetto

Adachiara Zevi, Monumenti per difetto: dalle Fosse Ardeatine alle pietre d’inciampo, Donzelli, 2014 The title of this publication announces a short history of monuments “by defect”, but just what sort…

Essays January 23, 2015

The Fosse Ardeatine

The Massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine. History, Myth, Ritual, and Symbol   Over the course of seventy years, national memory, historiography and the justice system have shown profound ambivalence towards…