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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

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…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

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Books March 1, 2009

Theater of Acculturation

Kenneth Stow, Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century, University of Washington Press,...

Books March 1, 2009

The Volterra Chronicles

Judith Goldstein, The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940, American Mathematical...

Books November 29, 2008

Under His Very Windows

Susan Zuccotti, Under His Very Windows, Yale University Press, 2000 Winner of the 2000 National Jewish...

Books November 29, 2008

October 16, 1943, Eight Jews

Giacomo Debenedetti, October 16, 1943: Eight Jews, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001   Debenedetti (1901-1967),...