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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 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…

News April 1, 2014

Festa del Libro Ebraico

  Festa del Libro Ebraico brings Ferrara front and center of Italian Jewish Life Alessandro Cassin Between April 26 and May 1, the city of Ferrara, (31miles North-East of Bologna…

Academia, News March 30, 2014

Gender and Anti-Semitism

Gender and Anti-Semitism Women’s Rights Yesterday and Today April 10 at 5:00 pm The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America 1161 Amsterdam Avenue Free and open to the public…

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…