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…
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
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Swahili Lit Festival
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Features
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…
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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Giorno della Memoria 2010
On January 27 Centro Primo Levi, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institutions in New York commemorate the victims of the Shoah by reading the names of the…
Israel at 60
Manuela Consonni Remembers Enzo Sereni On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, Hebrew University’s Italian scholar Manuela Consonni talks about Enzo Sereni,…
Ernesto Ferrero
In this rare New York appearance, Ernesto Ferrero, longtime editor of Levi’s work, offers new insight into Levi’s intellectual and moral concerns. “Is this a man? The German, the good…
Tzvi Avni on Primo Levi
“Avni’s vivid settings recalled Mahler and Shostakovich, always responsive to the poem’s meditation on inhumanity, based on Levi’s Holocaust experiences. The five songs are structured as a set, the steady…
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…
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…