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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Features
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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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and…
The Jews of San Nicandro
John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble southern Italian town in…
Answering Auschwitz
Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press, 2011 More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo…
A Storyteller’s Tale
This is a story of light and shadows: it belongs to one of the people whose lives have been touched by the events reconstructed in Anna Pizzuti’s book Paper Lives…
Ritual Basin, 18th century ca.., Jewish Museum of Rome
Ritual Basin, 18th century ca.., Jewish Museum of Rome, photo by Araldo De Luca
The Auschwitz Experiment
The second Primo Levi Lecture was presented by Massimo Bucciantini, Professor of History of Science at the University of Siena-Arezzo, on November 11, 2010. A large audience and three classes…