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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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Books February 28, 2014

The Pope and Mussolini

David Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, Random House, 2014 Review from The Guardian: David Kertzer’s nuanced book investigates…

Books February 28, 2014

“The Tragic Couple”

James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, “The Tragic Couple”  Encounters Between Jews and Jesuit, Brill 2013 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in the dialogue between Jews…

Books February 28, 2014

Père Marie-Benoît

Susan Zuccotti, Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust, Indiana University Press, 2003 Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and…

Books February 28, 2014

Salamone Rossi

Don Harrán, Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua, Oxford Monographs on Music,  2003 Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest…

Books February 28, 2014

Natalia Ginzburg’s Complete Plays

Natalia Ginzburg, Wendell Ricketts, The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg, Indiana University Press, 2013 The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of…

Essays February 28, 2014

Between Italy and Israel

A recollection of artist Piero Cividalli published by La Giuntina, Florence on the occasion of the publication of his father’s memoir “From Dream to Reality: Letters to My Combat Children:…