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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 29, 2012

The Scandal of Kabbalah

        Yaacob Dweck, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Princeton University Press, 2011 The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about…

Books March 29, 2012

The Hebrew Book in Italy

        Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 “A remarkably valuable contribution to the cultural history…

Books March 29, 2012

The Culture of Consent

        Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy,  Cambridge University Press, 2002 The efforts of fascism to form a ‘culture…

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…