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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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Essays, News April 23, 2014

Books Within Books

Books Within Books: Mauro Perani, passionate archeologist of the written word. Alessandro Cassin     One sensational discovery – in our media driven world – can spread the excitement from…

Academia April 8, 2014

Italian Jewish Exiles in South America

Italian Jewish Migration to Latin America, 1938-1945: An Overview by Annalisa Capristo at the Third Regional New York Latin American Jewish Studies Conference held in collaboration with the Americas Society…

Videos April 8, 2014

The Opposition: Giorgina Levi

Giorgina Levi (1910-2011) was an Italian historian, member of Parliament and public intellectual. Born in Turin from politically engaged parents, following Mussolini’s Racial Laws,  was forced to emigrate to Bolivia…

News April 4, 2014

Qabbalat Shabbat

QABBALAT SHABBAT | Shiru Shir: The Cantorial Tradition of the Libyan Jews. Conversation with David Meghnagi April 25  | Tefilla  7:00 pm |  Dinner 8:00 pm Congregation Magen David of…

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…