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Books, News November 22, 2024

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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

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.”…

Books May 3, 2024

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…

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Books March 31, 2012

Threads and Traces

        Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University of California Press, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new…

Books March 30, 2012

Mussolini and Fascism

        John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber (Institute for Historical Review), America’s Changing View of Mussolini and…

Books March 29, 2012

The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010

        Robert Gordon, The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010, Stanford University Press, 2012 The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar…

Books March 29, 2012

The Enemy of the New Man

        Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in…

Books March 29, 2012

A European Memory?

        Magorzata Pakier, Bo Stråth, A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, 2010 “As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory…

Books March 29, 2012

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

        Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2010 Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to…