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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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Academia, News August 8, 2014

Did the Germans Do It All?

Did the Germans Do It All? The Italian Shoah in International Historiography (1946-1986) This essay examines how the main historical writings in languages other than Italian (mostly English) published in…

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…