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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Let There Be Light
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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Features
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.”…
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…
Latest Articles
The Jews and the Black Death
Anna Foa – Translator: Andrea Grover, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death, University of California Press, 2000 Anna Foa’s richly innovative history of Jewish…
The Missing Italian Nuremberg
Michele Battini, The Missing Italian Nuremberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 “Battini’s excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military…
Early Modern Jewry
David Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press, 2010 Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish…
Resistance and Shoah
Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on the different uses of memory of the Resistence and…
Dialogues of Love
Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009 More about Leone Ebreo from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published…
Sarra Copia Sullam
Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago Press, 2009 The first Jewish woman to leave her mark…