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Academia, Essays March 10, 2023

The Last Muslims in Italy

During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist.  Dante does not mention Lucera Saracenorum (a Latin placename meaning “Lucera of the Saracens”) in his writings,…

Interviews January 4, 2023

A Double Bow for Primo Levi

The legendary cellist /composer France -Marie Uitti will premiere Luciano Chessa’s Piombo based on a text by Primo Levi at Magazzino Italian Art on January 21. The two-bow technique she…

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Books January 29, 2010

Resistance and Shoah

        Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on  the different uses of memory of the Resistence and…

Books January 29, 2010

Dialogues of Love

Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009 More about Leone Ebreo from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published…

Books January 29, 2010

Sarra Copia Sullam

        Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago Press, 2009 The first Jewish woman to leave her mark…

Books January 29, 2010

In corpore

        Loredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross, In corpore: bodies in post-unification Italy, Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007 In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and…

Interviews January 28, 2010

A New Journal: Quest

The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan Launches Online History Journal: Quest Alessandro Cassin interviews Michele Sarfatti, historian and director of CDEC The recent launch of the online magazine…

Books January 26, 2010

Ideology in Stone

How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history as an objective and time resistant benchmark. Throughout the centuries totalitarian regimes have erected…