Advertising the Self: Formiggini’s Talking Postcards
In an era in which advertising was not yet an industry but rather an incipient trade entrusted more to imagination than anything else, the Italian publisher Angelo Fortunato Formiggini invented…
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Reminiscing on Giorgio Bassani with Alain Elkann
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Fragments from Elsa Morante’s La storia
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The Jesuit
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The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music
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Bashing Micól
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The Racial Laws
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The Novel of Ferrara
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My betrayed garden
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La iente de Zion
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The People Next Door
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Hymns & Qualms: An Interview with Peter Cole
Dan Friedman, contributing editor of Sources. Originally published in “Sources: A Journal of Jewish Idea” Fall 2021. Reposted by permission. Image: Kelly Writers House. Peter Cole is one of the…
The Decision-Making Process of the Roundup of the Jews of Rome, October 16, 1943
A Historiographic Revisitation Based on OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Documents Liliana Picciotto, Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 48 (2020) Read the full article in Yad Vashem Studies. In his 2002…
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