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….
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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These Thoughts of Mine
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The Prescience of Alba De Céspedes’ “Her Side of The Story”
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Amos Gitai, Sheltering from War
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On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”
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Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review
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The Eternal Tendency Toward Fascism
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Truth or Dare?
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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…
Thanks Goodness I Am Here
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41. Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021 In July 1939, Mario and Clara…
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