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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 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…

Books January 29, 2010

A Nation Collapses

        Elena Agarossi, A Nation Collapses, Cambridge University Press, 2000 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church…

Books January 29, 2010

History vc. Apologetics

        David Cymet, History vc. Apologetics, Lexington Books, 2010 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church that…