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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

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”. …

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Books January 29, 2010

Early Modern Jewry

        David Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press,...

Books January 29, 2010

Resistance and Shoah

Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses...

Books January 29, 2010

Dialogues of Love

Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto...

Books January 29, 2010

Sarra Copia Sullam

Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago...

Books January 29, 2010

In corpore

        Loredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross, In corpore: bodies in post-unification Italy, Fairleigh Dickinson,...

Interviews January 28, 2010

A New Journal: Quest

The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan Launches Online History Journal: Quest Alessandro Cassin interviews...

Books January 26, 2010

Ideology in Stone

How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history...