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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, 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…

Books March 29, 2011

Treasures from Rome

        Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome : Guide to the Museum and Its Collection, Araldo De Luca, 2011 A beautifully illustrated and…

Books March 29, 2011

Between Scylla and Charybdis

        Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews In Sicily, Brill, 2011 The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand…

Books March 29, 2011

Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510

        Moshe Idel, Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510, Yale University Press, 2011 This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one…

Books March 29, 2011

Arduous Task

        Lina Insana, Arduous Task: Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, University of Toronto Press, 2009 One of twentieth-century Italy’s greatest thinkers, Primo Levi…