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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…

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…

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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…

Essays April 2, 2014

«I nostri compagni d’America»

«I nostri compagni d’America»: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Rescue of Italian Antifascists, 1934-1941 After the German army’s invasion of France in June 1940, hundreds of Italian antifascists, most…