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Del doman non v’è certezza

From the joint program on Giorno della Memoria In the past weeks I have received hundreds of remembrance day emails and letters asking “to fight Holocaust distortion” and “antisemitism.” One…

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Amos Gitai, Sheltering from War

On the occasion of Berlinale 2024, Israeli director Amos Gitai presented «Shikun» a film that foreshadows the dark tension preceding October 7th. Amos Gitai’s cinema encompasses art, architecture, theatre, music, news,…

On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”

Whose (Who’s) Shakespeare? On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” “You are a stranger here,” declares the opening poem of Amelia Rosselli’s slim volume Sleep (2023), “and have no place among us.” This…

Lorenza Mazzetti Re-covered: From the Paris Review

Re-Covered: The Sky Falls by Lorenza Mazzetti By Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020   In 1956, in a central London café, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and Lorenza Mazzetti wrote…