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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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Essays February 28, 2014

Hearing Jewish

Hearing Jewish, Writing Italian  Reconsidering the Written Sources of Italian Jewish Music The earliest historical sources that document the development of Jewish musical culture in Italy are a series of…

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…