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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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Essays March 27, 2013

Ordinary Italians and genocide 1943-45

        January 27, Remembrance Day: ordinary Italians and genocide 1943-45 What is a genocide and how does it occur? This is a question that we Italians can…

Interviews March 26, 2013

The Church and the Righteous

The Church and the Righteous. Susan Zuccotti in conversation with Alessandro Cassin Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, archbishop of Florence during World War II, has recently been named Righteous Among the…

Books March 26, 2013

After Mussolini

        Guri’s Schwarz’s After Mussolini: Review by Paul Arpaia After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy, the translation of Guri Schwarz’s Ritrovare se stessi….

Books March 26, 2013

From Enemy to Brother

        From Enemy to Brother: A Review of John Connelly’s New Book John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother. The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965,…

Books March 26, 2013

Dawn Came Upon

        Dawn Came Upon Us Like a Betrayer: Jews in the Camp of Fossoli 1943-1944 This article is based on the introduction to Liliana Picciotto’s book: L’alba ci colse…