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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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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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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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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Vizio di Forma
Vizio di forma is the second collection of fantastic-technological and fantastic-biological stories by Primo Levi. As opposed to Storie Naturali, which was published five years before under a pseudonym, this…
Primo Levi on Science Fiction
Reflecting upon the causes and the implications of this “ immense biological and social experience,” as he defines it, Levi, the story teller, ponders on the issue of segregation in…
Fascist Italy and the Jews
Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto, the Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Publications discusses the topic of: “Fascist Italy and the Jews: myth versus reality”. This is the first part of this talk, for…
Italy’s Fascist Camps
Carlo Spartaco Capogreco (The Duce’s Camps), Doris Schechter, hidden as a child in Italy, Alessandro Cassin. This panel will examine the unique situations of Jews in Italy during the Holocaust….
Giorno della Memoria 20100
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…
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…