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Books, News November 22, 2024

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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

Rethinking Holocaust Memory

  “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…

Books May 3, 2024

Biography of a Lost World

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…

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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…