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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A NEW GUIDE TO JEWISH PUGLIA
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Let There Be Light
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WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
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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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Features
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.”…
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…
Latest Articles
La trasparenza della parola.
La trasparenza della parola. A multimedia homage to Primo Levi. A conversation with Emilio Jona and Andrea Liberovici by Alessandro Cassin. Primo Levi would have been 90 years old this…
The Jews of early modern Venice
Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid, eds., The Jews of early modern Venice, John Hopkins University Press, 2001 John K. Brackett (Department of History, University of Cincinnati), H-Judaic (February, 2003)…
Theater of Acculturation
Kenneth Stow, Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century, University of Washington Press, 2001 When Pope Paul IV closed the Roman Ghetto in 1555, the Roman Jews…
The Volterra Chronicles
Judith Goldstein, The Volterra Chronicles: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940, American Mathematical Society, 2007 The life of Vito Volterra, one of the finest scientists and mathematicians…
Under His Very Windows
Susan Zuccotti, Under His Very Windows, Yale University Press, 2000 Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish-Christian Relations category, awarded by the Jewish Book Council. Winner…
October 16, 1943, Eight Jews
Giacomo Debenedetti, October 16, 1943: Eight Jews, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001 Debenedetti (1901-1967), one of Italy’s most influential literary critics, editors and literature professors, endangered his career…