Centro Primo Levi Online Monthly
With an Attempted Translation of a Poem by Franco Fortini (original post). Last October, Norman Finkelstein and Henry Weinfield posted on Norman’s poetry review website Restless Messengers an invitation to…
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri...
In 1948, Alba de Céspedes wrote to her friend, the acclaimed writer Natalia Ginzburg, of a...
On the occasion of Berlinale 2024, Israeli director Amos Gitai presented «Shikun» a film that foreshadows the...
Whose (Who’s) Shakespeare? On Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” “You are a stranger here,” declares the opening poem...
Re-Covered: The Sky Falls by Lorenza Mazzetti By Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review, 2020 In 1956, in...
Edited for Printed Matter. Original version with notes published in Allegoria. Every age has its...
Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue. The Markaz Review, 2021 A new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born...
“But when I raise my voice at Kedushah or Yozer, the fountains of song open wide....