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Books February 10, 2026

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…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“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”. …

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Books March 29, 2012

Fascism and the Police

Jonathan Dunnage, The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism, Cambridge University Press, 1998 Based on...

Books March 29, 2012

The Ghetto Reveals Rome

Luca Fiorentino, The Ghetto Reveals Rome, Gangemi editore, 2005 Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill...

Books March 29, 2012

Fascism and the Jews

Salvatore Garau, Daniel Tilles, Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Vallentine Mitchell,  2011 Franklin Adler....

Books March 29, 2012

The Scandal of Kabbalah

Yaacob Dweck, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Princeton University Press,...

Books March 29, 2012

The Culture of Consent

Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy,  Cambridge University...

Books March 29, 2012

Synagogues of Piedmont

Franco Lattes, Paola Valentini, Words, Images, Objects, and Architectures of the Synagogues of Piedmont, Umberto Allemandi,...