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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

New Reflections on Primo Levi

        Risa Sodi, Millicent Marcus, New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and After Auschwitz, Palgave McMillan, 2011 “It is usually said that the life of a writer…

Books March 29, 2011

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz

Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and…

Books March 29, 2011

The Jews of San Nicandro

        John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble…

Books March 29, 2011

Answering Auschwitz

        Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press, 2011 More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer…

Interviews March 26, 2011

A Storyteller’s Tale

This is a story of light and shadows: it belongs to one of the people whose lives have been touched by the events reconstructed in Anna Pizzuti’s book Paper Lives…