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…
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…
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…
“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”. …
We are posting Pierpaolo Pasolini’s 1968 letter to the students in revolt to invite reflection on...
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the...
This essay is part of a widespread reflection on the places and forms of historical Judaism....
THE RENEGADE Finally, historian Ariel Toaff’s first novel, The Renegade, is available in English from CPL...
Why Was the Libyan Holocaust Taken Out of Primo Levi’s Influential Book in Israel? Prof. Claudia...
From the joint program on Giorno della Memoria In the past weeks I have received hundreds...
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri...
In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a...