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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,…

Essays July 22, 2024

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.”…

Books May 3, 2024

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…

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Interviews January 26, 2010

Memory Buried

Memory Buried: In Search of Mussolini’s Camps   Interview by Alessandro Cassin Carlo Spartaco Capogreco is a professor at the Università della Calabria and president of Fondazione Ferramonti, which is…

Interviews January 19, 2010

The Language of Testimony

The Language of Testimony:  a Conversation with Manuela Consonni by Alessandro Cassin Manuela Consonni is head of the Department of Italian Studies and the Romance and Latin American Studies section…

News January 18, 2010

The People of the Book

The People of the Book and Their Books: Ferrara Celebrates Jewish Continuity and Book Publishing in Italy Alessandro Cassin interviews Riccardo Calimani The first edition of the Italian Jewish Book…

Essays January 14, 2010

Jews and the Present of the Past

        Jews and the Present of the Past: A Retrospective Look at the the ‘Symbolic and Ethnic Other’ Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University) introduces Kenneth Stow (University of…

Books January 8, 2010

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…

Interviews January 2, 2010

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…