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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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Videos April 1, 2013

New Voices on Primo Levi

Held on the 90th Anniversary of Primo Levi the 2009 symposium highlighted the critical work of Giorgio Agamben and the translations of If This is a Man in Arabic and…

Videos April 1, 2013

Primo Levi at 90

Each year, the Primo Levi Forum connects scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. What continues to emerge is the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Katja

It is a first hand testimony, in all its unique flavor and idiosyncratic detail, tracing the ark of a life that started in war torn Italy, continuing with an American…

Videos April 1, 2013

The Rosselli Case

Among the most courageous figures of Italian antifascism, Carlo and Nello Rosselli co-founded Giustizia e Libertà. Carlo was among the first to grasp the importance of the Spanish Civil War…

Videos April 1, 2013

J-Italy

J-ITALY, conceived by Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with ENIT (The Italian National Tourism Board) and designed by Jonathan Wajskol, is a newly created portal that provides a dynamic guide to…

Videos April 1, 2013

Il Coro del Tempio Maggiore

On March 17th, 1861 Vittorio Emanuele II was declared King of Italy, uniting seven states under the Savoy crown. It was not until September 20th, 1870, when the Piemontese troops…