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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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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Features
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.”…
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…
Latest Articles
The Racial Laws
The Racial Laws, a poem by Giorgio Bassani (translated by Jamie McKendrick) The magnolia right in the middle of our Ferrara house’s garden is the very same that reappears in…
The Novel of Ferrara
Introduction by Jamie McKendrick to his translation of The Novel of Ferrara (W.W. Norton & Co., 2019) In short stories, novels, poems, and essays, Giorgio Bassani has composed perhaps the…
My betrayed garden
my work, in a way that would have been inappropriate even if they were marionettes. Although fine folk, the Finzi-Continis were not Rothschilds, carrying out correspondence with wealthy international relatives by mail! “Isac” and “Rachel,” mentioned on p. 278 onwards of the Pirro revision, distorted the Finzi-Continis, rendering a false and unflattering image of the family.
La iente de Zion
La iente de Zion: a Medieval liturgical poem in Italian vernacular From: Jews, an Italian Story. The First Thousand Years, Electa, 2018, Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah, Ferrara….
Pri Etz Hadar
Written by an unknown author, probably of the school of Itzach Luria in Safed, it was included in the Sefer Ḥemdat Yamim by R’ Yisrael Yakov Ben Yom Tov Algazi…
The People Next Door
As long as we live in this house there is no need for Stolpersteines, we don’t need to stumble in memory.