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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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Books March 31, 2013

A Marriage in War and Peace

        Alexander Stille, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Elizabeth and Misha,…

Books March 31, 2013

The Chosen Few

        Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, Princeton University Press, 2012 In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and…

Books March 31, 2013

Jews on Trial

        Kathrine Aaron Beller, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638, Manchester University Press, 2011 Jews on Trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period…

Books March 31, 2013

Fascist Voices

Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy, Oxford University Press, 2013 Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in…

Books March 31, 2013

From Enemy to Brother

        John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Harvard University Press, 2012 In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared…

Books March 30, 2013

In the Society of Fascists

        Roberta Pergher, Giulia Albanese (Editors), In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 It has been a commonplace in…