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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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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…

Essays March 26, 2014

Delasem

DELASEM. The Unhailed Organization That Assisted Thousands of Jewish Refugees. Interview by Alessandro Cassin From Hitler’s raise to power in 1933 up to the early 1940’s, Italy was one of…

Essays March 26, 2014

Purim and Kippurim

        Courtesy www.morasha.it The feast of Purim commemorates an event which took place 2500 years ago in Persia, during the reign of Assuero.  The Book of Esther…

Essays March 26, 2014

Listening to Silence

Visiting the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, one is struck by the silence. It is not real silence, after all the birds go about their business and so do the…

Books March 26, 2014

The Jews of Libya

Maurice Roumani, The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement, Sussex Academic Press, 2008 This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938–52), a period…