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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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Essays March 26, 2014

Listening to Silence

Visiting the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, one is struck by the silence. It is not real silence, after all the birds go about their business and so do the…

Books March 26, 2014

The Jews of Libya

Maurice Roumani, The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement, Sussex Academic Press, 2008 This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938–52), a period…

Academia March 25, 2014

Edoth, Mediteranean Jews

Edoth. The Jews of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Libyan, Turks and Iranian The Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan initiated two projects dedicated to the…

Essays February 28, 2014

Pius XII and the 16th of October, 1943

Pius XII and the 16th of October, 1943 This article appeared in the journal “Italia” edited by Robert Bonfil, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, vol. XXI, 2012. Centro Primo Levi…

Videos February 28, 2014

Puglia: Gate to Israel

At the end of WWII, Jewish refugees were temporarily hosted in transit camps in Puglia, which had been established under the aegis of the United Nations and the Allied Forces.

Videos February 28, 2014

Ferramonti

“Children imprisoned behind barbed wire! Here is one of the typical symptoms of this heroic age of ours.”