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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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Books March 28, 2009

The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste

Lois C. Dubin, The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture, Stanford University Press, 1999 ‘Dubin’s brilliant study of the cosmopolitan entrepôt of goods and peoples that…

Books March 28, 2009

Inside the Gas Chambers

Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, Polity, 2009 This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the…

Books March 28, 2009

Momigliano and Antiquarianism

Peter Miller, Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences, University of Toronto Press, 2007 One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known…

Books March 28, 2009

Philosophy and Kabbalah

Alessandro Guetta, Philosophy and Kabbalah. Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericis, State University of New York Press, 2009   Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis…

Books March 28, 2009

Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb

Giuseppe Veltri, Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb. Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual…

Books March 28, 2009

Acculturation and its Discontents

David H. Myers, Massimo Ciavolella, Peter Hanns Reill, Geoffrey Symcox (Eds.), Acculturation and its Discontents, University of Toronto Press, 2008 Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in…