The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
Jonathan Dunnage, The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism, Cambridge University Press, 1998 Based on...
Luca Fiorentino, The Ghetto Reveals Rome, Gangemi editore, 2005 Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill...
Jonathan Rose, The Holocaust and the Book, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008 Between 1933 and 1945,...
Salvatore Garau, Daniel Tilles, Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Vallentine Mitchell, 2011 Franklin Adler....
Yaacob Dweck, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Princeton University Press,...
Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, University of Pennsylvania...
Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University...
Franco Lattes, Paola Valentini, Words, Images, Objects, and Architectures of the Synagogues of Piedmont, Umberto Allemandi,...