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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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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Del doman non v’è certezza
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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
Giovanni Palatucci
Giovanni Palatucci Between History and Hagiography Alessandro Cassin interviews Marco Coslovich Of the trends that have characterized the debate on the Shoah in Italy the one…
Roman Jews Welcome the Pope
Once again Roman Jews Welcome the Pope: A surprise exhibition welcomes Benedict XVI to the Jewish Museum of Rome Interview with Daniela Di Castro, Director of the Jewish Museum of Rome…
Conversation with Lia Levi
Alessandro Cassin Lia Levi’s new novel, The Jewish Husband, Europa Editions, 2009 provides a poignant reflection on the far-reaching consequences of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish legislation of 1938. The novel illustrates…
Jewish Dogs
Kenneth Stow, Jewish Dogs, Stanford University Press, 2006 Jewish Dogs is not a study of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Judaism.” Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have…
Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome
Kenneth Stow, Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome, Ashgate, 2007 The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the…
The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust
Robert Weisbord, Wallace Sillanpoa, The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust, Transaction Publishers, 1991 In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome’s ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists…