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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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News March 26, 2011

Memory, Neglected.

        Memory, Neglected. The Italian Memorial in Auschwitz Alessandro Cassin Memorialization of the Shoah and its possible expression through art have been stirring passionate debates over the…

Essays March 26, 2011

Tullia Calabi Zevi

Tullia Calabi Zevi (1919-2011):  “My Political Autobiography” Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria…

Books March 26, 2011

Paper Lives

Paper Lives- Survival and Deportation in San Donato Val Comino, 1940-1943 Anna Pizzuti’s website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War…

News January 29, 2010

The Italian Jewish Press

The New Mobility of Italian Jewish Press: Pagine Ebraiche Alessandro Cassin interviews Guido Vitale In a time when media empires are crumbling and journalism seems like a dying profession, the…

Books January 29, 2010

War and revolution in Yugoslavia

        Jozo Tomasevich, War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration, Stanford University Press, 2001 This is the long-awaited second part of the author’s meticulously researched…

Books January 29, 2010

From Fascism to Democracy

        Robert Ventresca, From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, University of Toronto Press, 2004 From Fascism to Democracy tells the…