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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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Essays February 28, 2014

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte in New York City   Anyone consulting the mid-nineteenth century catalogs of New York City’s two oldest libraries would be struck by the astonishing number of Italian…

Books February 28, 2014

The Pope and Mussolini

David Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, Random House, 2014 Review from The Guardian: David Kertzer’s nuanced book investigates…

Books February 28, 2014

“The Tragic Couple”

James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, “The Tragic Couple”  Encounters Between Jews and Jesuit, Brill 2013 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in the dialogue between Jews…

Books February 28, 2014

Père Marie-Benoît

Susan Zuccotti, Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust, Indiana University Press, 2003 Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and…

Books February 28, 2014

Salamone Rossi

Don Harrán, Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua, Oxford Monographs on Music,  2003 Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest…

Books February 28, 2014

Natalia Ginzburg’s Complete Plays

Natalia Ginzburg, Wendell Ricketts, The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg, Indiana University Press, 2013 The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of…

Essays February 28, 2014

Between Italy and Israel

A recollection of artist Piero Cividalli published by La Giuntina, Florence on the occasion of the publication of his father’s memoir “From Dream to Reality: Letters to My Combat Children:…

Illustrations February 27, 2014

Printed Matter

Occasional newsprint of Centro Primo Levi online monthly, designed by Jonathan Wajskol. Printed Matter publishes articles, news, interviews and book reviews relating to the Center’s two focal points: the legacy…