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News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

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,…

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Interviews March 26, 2013

The Church and the Righteous

The Church and the Righteous. Susan Zuccotti in conversation with Alessandro Cassin Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, archbishop of Florence during World War II, has recently been named Righteous Among the…

Books March 26, 2013

After Mussolini

Guri’s Schwarz’s After Mussolini: Review by Paul Arpaia After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy, the translation of Guri Schwarz’s Ritrovare se stessi. Gli Ebrei nell’Italia postfascista…

Books March 26, 2013

From Enemy to Brother

John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother. The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 2012, pp. 365 The historiographical debate over twentieth-century…

Books March 26, 2013

Dawn Came Upon

Dawn Came Upon Us Like a Betrayer: Jews in the Camp of Fossoli 1943-1944 This article is based on the introduction to Liliana Picciotto’s book: L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli…

News March 25, 2013

Centaur Award 2013

John Elkann presents the Centaur Award to John Turturro On May 20th, 2013, Centro Primo Levi hosted its first benefit Gala. On this occasion John Elkann presented the Centaur Award…