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”. …
Moshe Idel, Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510, Yale University Press, 2011 This sweeping survey of the history...
Lina Insana, Arduous Task: Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, University of...
Risa Sodi, Millicent Marcus, New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and After...
Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last...
John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of...
Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press,...
This is a story of light and shadows: it belongs to one of the people whose...
Ritual Basin, 18th century ca.., Jewish Museum of Rome, photo by Araldo De Luca