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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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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…

Books, News March 24, 2012

Italian Jews in the Modern Era

Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione. Carocci editore, Rome, 2014 Marina Caffiero’s new book offers an engaging overview of the situation of the Jews of…

Academia, Essays March 19, 2012

Eighty Years in Print

Eighty Years in Print: The Rassegna Mensile di Israel What follows is the text of the speech given by Prof. Anna Foa at the presentation of the indices  of the…

Books March 19, 2012

Fossoli

      A New Book on the Transit Camp of Fossoli by Liliana Picciotto Liliana Picciotto’s new volume –  L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel campo…