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.”…
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Are We All Faust?
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Rethinking Holocaust Memory
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Modigliani’s alphabet of love
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March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
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Biography of a Lost World
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Extravagant reflections around Pesach
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New Titles from CPL Editions
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A New Hebrew Translation of Primo Levi’s Iconic Memoir
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Del doman non v’è certezza
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These Thoughts of Mine
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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…
These Thoughts of Mine
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….
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Piero Sraffa
Alessandro Roncaglia, Piero Sraffa: His life, thought and cultural heritage, Routledge, 2000-2009 This is a lively, intellectual biography of a leading protagonist of 20th century culture and his relations…
This Has Happened
Piera Sonnino (Ann Goldstein, translator), This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to…
A Woman from Rome
Lily Tuck, A Woman from Rome: Elsa Morante, Harper Collins, 2008 Elsa Morante was born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means. She grew up with an independent…
The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy
Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy – From Equality to Persecution, The University of Wisconsin, 2007 Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews…
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance
Dana Katz, The jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania, 2008 Renaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward…
Writing as Freedom
Sergio Parussa, Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony, Four Italian Writers and Judaism, Syracuse University Press, 2008 In Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony, Sergio Parussa explores the relationship between…