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Books March 12, 2024

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….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

Thanks Goodness I Am Here

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41.  Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021  In July 1939, Mario and Clara…

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Books March 29, 2012

Synagogues of Piedmont

Franco Lattes, Paola Valentini, Words, Images, Objects, and Architectures of the Synagogues of Piedmont, Umberto Allemandi, 2009 Born from the collaboration between the Jewish Community of Turin and one of…

News March 26, 2012

Rehabilitating Fascist War Criminals

        Recent historiography has persuasively demonstrated that the anti-Jewish racial laws of 1938 were not Mussolini’s concession to Hitler, but instead the culmination of Italy’s own racist policies….

Essays March 26, 2012

The Vatican and the Anti-Jewish Persecution

The Vatican and the Anti-Jewish Persecution in Italy through Diplomatic Documents of the Holy See Following the controversy concerning the decision of Yad Vashem to change the caption on Pius…

Essays March 26, 2012

The Portuguese Inquisition

        Toward a History of Portuguese Inquisition: Trends in Modern Historiography (1974-2009) The Portuguese Inquisition : classic and modern historiography One and a half centuries after the…

Essays March 26, 2012

Le Vie dei Canti

        Le Vie dei Canti: Jewish Music in Livorno From the introduction to Daniele Bedarida’s recording Shemà Qolì For centuries Livorno has been both a meeting point…

Essays March 26, 2012

Our History as Italian Jews

        Opening speech at the Italian Jewish Congress 2011 The intensity and strength of the Italian Jewish minority’s connection with Italian Unification is well known. Aware that…