A Woman’s Resistance
A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…
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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
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,…
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