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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 Holocaust and the Book

Jonathan Rose, The Holocaust and the Book, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008 Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act…

Books March 29, 2012

Fascism and the Jews

        Salvatore Garau, Daniel Tilles, Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Vallentine Mitchell,  2011 Franklin Adler. Review of Garau, Salvatore; Tilles, Daniel, eds., Fascism and the…

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…