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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

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Essays March 26, 2012

The Vatican and the Anti-Jewish Persecution

The Vatican and the Anti-Jewish Persecution in Italy through Diplomatic Documents of the Holy See Following the controversy concerning the decision of Yad Vashem to change the caption on Pius…

Essays March 26, 2012

The Portuguese Inquisition

  Toward a History of Portuguese Inquisition: Trends in Modern Historiography (1974-2009) The Portuguese Inquisition : classic and modern historiography One and a half centuries after the publication of the…

Essays March 26, 2012

Le Vie dei Canti

Le Vie dei Canti: Jewish Music in Livorno From the introduction to Daniele Bedarida’s recording Shemà Qolì For centuries Livorno has been both a meeting point and global springboard for…

Essays March 26, 2012

Our History as Italian Jews

  Opening speech at the Italian Jewish Congress 2011 The intensity and strength of the Italian Jewish minority’s connection with Italian Unification is well known. Aware that any hope of…

Books, News March 24, 2012

Italian Jews in the Modern Era

Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione. Carocci editore, Rome, 2014 Marina Caffiero’s new book offers an engaging overview of the situation of the Jews of…

Academia, Essays March 19, 2012

Eighty Years in Print

Eighty Years in Print: The Rassegna Mensile di Israel What follows is the text of the speech given by Prof. Anna Foa at the presentation of the indices  of the…