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News April 15, 2025

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…

Books March 5, 2025

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…

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,…

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Academia February 28, 2014

Lezione Primo Levi 2014

        Raccontare la Storia: Anna Bravo delivers the fifth annual Primo Levi lecture. The Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin presents the fifth Primo Levi…

Essays February 28, 2014

Luigi Dallapiccola’s musical innovations

Collateral Damage: Luigi Dallapiccola’s Musical Innovations Between Tyranny and Ideology Alessandro Cassin With a riveting concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have…

News February 28, 2014

Palatucci Commission

The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan to Lead Research Commission on Fiume 1938-1945 and Palatucci June-August 2013 –  The Union of the Italian Jewish Communities appointed the Center…

Essays February 28, 2014

Il Generale della Rovere

Il Generale della Rovere an the Dilemmas of Post-War Italy In his recent book The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010, Robert Gordon refers to the late 1950s and early 1960s…

Essays February 28, 2014

Telos on Fascism

A New Issue of Telos: The Particularities of Fascist Anti-Semitism When we examine European anti-Semitism during the 1930s, and especially the Shoah, the case of Germany looms so large that…

Essays February 28, 2014

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte in New York City   Anyone consulting the mid-nineteenth century catalogs of New York City’s two oldest libraries would be struck by the astonishing number of Italian…