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Books March 12, 2024

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

Thanks Goodness I Am Here

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41.  Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021  In July 1939, Mario and Clara…

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Academia February 26, 2014

Lessons and Legacies XIII

CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS   The Thirteenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and by Florida Atlantic University, will consist…

Illustrations February 26, 2014

Piazza delle Cinque Scòle

Giacomo Lenghi, Watercolor, 1830 ca., Jewish Museum of Rome The square is named after the building that housed the five synagogues of the Jewish community of Rome from the institution…

Illustrations February 26, 2014

Megillat Ester

A beautifully illuminated 18th century Italian scroll from the collection of the Library of Congress

Academia February 24, 2014

Jews of Southern Europe

Call for Papers: The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeast Europe from 1848 to the Great Depression. International Conference. Department of Humanities, University of Trieste, for 12-13 May 2014 The…

Books February 24, 2014

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Ben Earle, Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear…