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…
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
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Swahili Lit Festival
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Features
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…
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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Pius XII and the 16th of October, 1943
Pius XII and the 16th of October, 1943 This article appeared in the journal “Italia” edited by Robert Bonfil, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, vol. XXI, 2012. Centro Primo Levi…
Puglia: Gate to Israel
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Ferramonti
“Children imprisoned behind barbed wire! Here is one of the typical symptoms of this heroic age of ours.”
Israeli Radio on Italian Jewish Music
A fascinating Israeli radio program dedicate to Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco and the musical traditions o the Jews of Italy.
Portico d’Ottavia 13
Anna Foa, Portico d’Ottavia 13: Una casa del ghetto nel lungo inverno del ’4, Laterza 2014 Review by Andrea Grover Anna Foa’s , Portico D’Ottavia 13: Una casa del ghetto…
The Biblioteca Palatina and the National Library of Israel
The Biblioteca Palatina and the National Library of Israel – Together to Save the Books Israel’s National Library and the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma signed an agreement based on which…