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Books, Essays 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”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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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…