
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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: 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….
In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a specific kind of affliction that could befall the women of their time. They called…
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,…
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…
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…