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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…

Books March 12, 2024

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

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Academia April 4, 2014

The Jews of Libya

Seminar in Italian Jewish Studies: The Jews of Libya Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era April 25 , 9:30 am to 1:30 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò…

Essays April 2, 2014

«I nostri compagni d’America»

«I nostri compagni d’America»: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Rescue of Italian Antifascists, 1934-1941 After the German army’s invasion of France in June 1940, hundreds of Italian antifascists, most…

News April 1, 2014

Festa del Libro Ebraico

        Festa del Libro Ebraico brings Ferrara front and center of Italian Jewish Life Alessandro Cassin Between April 26 and May 1, the city of Ferrara, (31miles…

Academia, News March 30, 2014

Gender and Anti-Semitism

        Gender and Anti-Semitism Women’s Rights Yesterday and Today April 10 at 5:00 pm The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America 1161 Amsterdam Avenue Free and…

Books March 28, 2014

The Jews of Italy 1848–1915

Elizabeth Schächter, The Jews of Italy 1848–1915 Between Tradition and Transformation,  Vallentine Mitchell, 2011   Much has been written about the Jews during the Fascist regime, but the period from…

Books March 28, 2014

Love and the Idea of Europe

        Luisa Passerini, Love and the Idea of Europe, translated by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009   Review (Jan Georg Soeffner) When…