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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 July 11, 2014

Agostino

Moravia’s Bildungs-novella Gets New Life Sometimes a new translation can unlock the hidden beauty of a work that had previously not gained its deserved attention. This is what happened with…

Essays July 11, 2014

On Sabato Morais

Tradition in the New World: Rethinking Sabato Morais This Review of Arthur Kiron‘s Golden Ages, Promised Lands: The Victorian Rabbinic Humanism of Sabato Morais (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1999) was…

News June 27, 2014

Rabbini italiani

Chevrà Sharè Shamaìm is a study group led by Rav David E. Sciunnach. It gathers every week to study the Torah and its commentaries and maintains a website dedicated to…

News June 26, 2014

Farewell to Bianca Guidetti Serra

Centro Primo Levi New York wishes to express our deepest solidarity and sorrow to the family, colleagues and friends of Bianca Guidetti Serra, (Torino, August 19, 1919 – Torino, June…

Books June 25, 2014

Medieval Salento

The Medieval Salento
: Art and Identity in Southern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse…

Essays June 25, 2014

Yohanan Alemanno

Cultural Relationships between Jews and Non-Jews in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Yohanan Alemanno This talk was presented at the symposium “Humanism and the Rabbinic Tradition in Italy and Beyond”…