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Academia, Books 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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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…

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…