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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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Essays November 26, 2008

Growing up Jewish in Ferrara

  Courtesy of Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, June 2004 Giorgio Bassani’s Ferrara may be, as an American critic has called it, a “semiotic labyrinth,” but…

Essays November 19, 2008

Reflections

Reflections on an Italian Jewish life From: The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy, Stanislao G. Pugliese, editor, 2002 I am an Italian Jew. My forefathers settled in…

Essays November 19, 2008

Vito Volterra (1860–1940)

Vito Volterra (1860–1940): Scientist, Policymaker, and Bibliophile Vito Volterra is generally considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time: “His most important contributions were in higher analysis, mathematical physics,…

Books November 3, 2008

In Praise of Imperfection

Rita Levi Montalcini, In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work, Sloan Catering Foundation Science Series, 1988   Rita Levi Montalcini, In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work, Sloan…

Essays March 26, 2007

Remove from Circulation

Remove from Circulation.Fascism’s Suppression of Jewish Authors Research shows that anti-Semitic censorship has historically been an important facet of the persecution enacted against the Jews and that the eradication of…

Essays March 26, 2007

A Tranquil Star?

Primo Levi: the Man and the Narrator In a passage of the Confessions, probably the most influent modern autobiography, Jean-Jacques Rousseau reflects on Michel de Montaigne, asserting with a certain…