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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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Books, Essays May 18, 2014

Gentile on Kertzer

Some Observations on Catholicism, Fascism and Totalitarianism During the Papacy of Pius XI. On David L. Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise…

Academia, News May 17, 2014

The Invention of the Jewish Community in Italy

Publication event: The registries of three Italian Jewish communities May 12, 2014   Hevrat yehudè Italia lif’eulà ruhanit, Rehov Hillel 25, Jerusalem Y. Yudlov, Il Registro della comunità di Casale Monferrato,…

Essays May 16, 2014

April 25

It took a war for everyone to understand what the regime represented, a regime highly skilled in cultivating consensus. Though it seemed like a harmless dictatorship, it wasn’t in the least.

Academia May 16, 2014

A Jewish Family in Pisa

I Supino. Una dinastia di ebrei pisani fra mercatura, arte, politica e diritto (secc. XVI-XX) Organized by the Società Storica Pisana May, 26-27  2014 – Palazzo Blu, Lungarno Gambacorti 9,…

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…