The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
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The Talking Dead
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Bookhouse Musings: Between Dream and Reality
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Invited to Think
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The Printshop at Bookhouse
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La Storia
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Bruce Slovin (1935-2025)
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QUARTO STATO
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Bookhouse Musings: A Table
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Thruth and the Holocaust
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An Act of Faith
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La Storia
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
Thruth and the Holocaust
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
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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…
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Roman Jews Welcome the Pope
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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…