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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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Essays October 16, 2014

The Italian-Jewish Liturgy

Traditional Jewish Music and Italian-Jewish Liturgical Traditions Jerusalem, summer 1955, Published in: “Rassegna Mensile di Israel”, Tishri 5718, Ottobre 1957, Vol. XXIII, N. 10 Translated by Inga Pierson What is…

Academia October 8, 2014

Beyond the Canon

Thinking Beyond the Canon: New Themes and Approaches in Jewish Studies March 8–9, 2015, University of California, Los Angeles Submissions due by October 31st. You may direct questions to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu….

Videos October 5, 2014

Yafuzu’ oyevecha

Yafuzu Oyevecha sung by the chief rabbi of Padua Rav A. Locci and B. Sacerdoti. Pictures of Italian Synagogues.  

Essays, News October 5, 2014

Ethiopia 1935

Ethiopia is one of only two African countries that managed to escape colonization during Europe’s great scramble for Africa in the 1870s. Italy, a latecomer to the colonial enterprise, was…

Academia, Essays October 3, 2014

A Polishman among Ethiopians

  A century before global Jewry reached out to Ethiopia’s community, a researcher named Jacques Faitlovitch sowed the seeds for a future ingathering. An odd sculpture recently appeared on the…

Academia, Essays October 3, 2014

Jewish Settlement in Ethiopia

Plans for Mass Jewish Settlement in Ethiopia (1936-1943) Source: Tetzeta Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia in the autumn of 1935, and the development of anti-Semitism in both fascist Italy 1 and…