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Books, Essays October 16, 2025

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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

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”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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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…