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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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Interviews March 31, 2011

Stella Levi Honored

Stella Levi to Be Honored at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Alessandro Cassin interviews Stella Levi On June 2, CPL Board member, Stella Levi will be honored at the Museum…

Books March 29, 2011

Dictating Demography

        Carl Ipsen, Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2002 Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between…

Books March 29, 2011

Building a New Man

        Francesco Cassata, Building a New Man: Eugenics, Racial Sciences and Genetics in Twentieth Century Italy, CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine, 2011 Analyzes the…

Books March 29, 2011

Forced Baptisms

        Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome, University of California Press, 2011 This book makes use of newly available archival…

Books March 29, 2011

Prisoners of Hope

Stuart Hughes, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974, Harvard University Press, 1996 The years between 1924 and 1974 may indeed have been a silver age…

Books March 29, 2011

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism

        Arnaldo Momigliano, Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism, University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the…