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News April 15, 2025

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…

Books March 5, 2025

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…

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,…

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Interviews March 26, 2011

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…

Essays March 26, 2011

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…

Interviews March 26, 2011

Fascist Imperial Dreams

Fascist Imperial Dreams, a conversation with Davide Rodogno by Alessandro Cassin Mussolini’s short-lived empire has often been thought of dismissively as an operetta affair. In addition to its colonies in…

News March 26, 2011

Memory, Neglected.

  Memory, Neglected. The Italian Memorial in Auschwitz Alessandro Cassin Memorialization of the Shoah and its possible expression through art have been stirring passionate debates over the past 40 years….

Essays March 26, 2011

Tullia Calabi Zevi

Tullia Calabi Zevi (1919-2011):  “My Political Autobiography” Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria…