Features

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”. …

Latest Articles

Interviews March 31, 2011

Stella Levi Honored

Stella Levi to Be Honored at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Alessandro Cassin interviews Stella Levi...

Books March 29, 2011

Dictating Demography

Carl Ipsen, Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2002...

Books March 29, 2011

Building a New Man

Francesco Cassata, Building a New Man: Eugenics, Racial Sciences and Genetics in Twentieth Century Italy, CEU...

Books March 29, 2011

Forced Baptisms

  Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome, University of...

Books March 29, 2011

Prisoners of Hope

Stuart Hughes, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974, Harvard University Press,...

Books March 29, 2011

Treasures from Rome

  Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome : Guide to the Museum...