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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 January 26, 2010

From Trieste to New York

  Book Review: From Trieste to New York. Annie Cohen-Solal’s Leo & His Circle Alessandro Cassin Chances are even those outside the contemporary art world are familiar with Leo Castelli’s…

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…