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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…

Books, News November 22, 2024

WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!

The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…

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Books March 28, 2014

The Jews of Italy 1848–1915

Elizabeth Schächter, The Jews of Italy 1848–1915 Between Tradition and Transformation,  Vallentine Mitchell, 2011   Much has been written about the Jews during the Fascist regime, but the period from…

Books March 28, 2014

Love and the Idea of Europe

Luisa Passerini, Love and the Idea of Europe, translated by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009 Review (Jan Georg Soeffner) When conceiving of being European, love…

Academia, News March 26, 2014

This week in New York

        Mauro Perani (University of Bologna) will speak to students and faculty at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, room 513, West…

News March 26, 2014

Tribute to Cesare Colafemmina

Exhibition Pays Tribute to Cesare Colafemmina The Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione sull’Ebraismo nel Mediterraneo “Cesare Colafemmina” [www.cerdem.com] presents a publication the exhibition “Ketav, Sefer, Miktav. Jewish Culture in Puglia…

Academia March 26, 2014

Italian Jews in Context

Call for Papers: Italian Jews in Context: Relations, Exchanges, Networks The CUNY Graduate Center and the Columbia University Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies invite proposals for papers to be presented at a conference featuring…

Essays March 26, 2014

Homens da Nação

Homens da Nação: the « Portuguese » of Livorno and Tunis From a very young age, I knew I was a Livornese, but I only went to Livorno for the first time…