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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 May 18, 2014

Memorie Ebraiche

A multimedia Archive of the Jewish Community of Rome Memorie Ebraiche is an internet portal documenting the history of Roman Jewry since the liberation of the city in 1944. Through…

Books, Essays May 18, 2014

Gentile on Kertzer

Some Observations on Catholicism, Fascism and Totalitarianism During the Papacy of Pius XI. On David L. Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise…

Academia, News May 17, 2014

The Invention of the Jewish Community in Italy

Publication event: The registries of three Italian Jewish communities May 12, 2014   Hevrat yehudè Italia lif’eulà ruhanit, Rehov Hillel 25, Jerusalem Y. Yudlov, Il Registro della comunità di Casale Monferrato,…

Essays May 16, 2014

April 25

It took a war for everyone to understand what the regime represented, a regime highly skilled in cultivating consensus. Though it seemed like a harmless dictatorship, it wasn’t in the least.

Academia May 16, 2014

A Jewish Family in Pisa

        I Supino. Una dinastia di ebrei pisani fra mercatura, arte, politica e diritto (secc. XVI-XX) Organized by the Società Storica Pisana May, 26-27  2014 – Palazzo…