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Books, Essays 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”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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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…

Academia April 8, 2014

Italian Jewish Exiles in South America

Italian Jewish Migration to Latin America, 1938-1945: An Overview by Annalisa Capristo at the Third Regional New York Latin American Jewish Studies Conference held in collaboration with the Americas Society…

Videos April 8, 2014

The Opposition: Giorgina Levi

Giorgina Levi (1910-2011) was an Italian historian, member of Parliament and public intellectual. Born in Turin from politically engaged parents, following Mussolini’s Racial Laws,  was forced to emigrate to Bolivia…

News April 4, 2014

Qabbalat Shabbat

QABBALAT SHABBAT | Shiru Shir: The Cantorial Tradition of the Libyan Jews. Conversation with David Meghnagi April 25  | Tefilla  7:00 pm |  Dinner 8:00 pm Congregation Magen David of…

Academia April 4, 2014

The Jews of Libya

Seminar in Italian Jewish Studies: The Jews of Libya Between the 19th Century and the Colonial Era April 25 , 9:30 am to 1:30 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò…