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Primo Levi, Argon

… the contrast between the texture of their speech … and the Hebrew interpolation, snatched from the language of the fathers, sacred and solemn… reflects another, the essential one of Diaspora Jews, scattered among Gentiles … trapped in tension between their divine calling and the daily misery of exile... Primo Levi, Argon

The Renegade By Ariel Toaff Translated by Cristina Popple On a morning in 1840, a young boy discovers, under an olive tree on the outskirts of Nablus, the body of David Ajash, an Italian rabbi and kabbalist of Algerian origin…

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Internee Number 6 By Maria Eisenstein, Curated by Carlo Spartaco Capogreco Afterword by Eric Feingersh Steele Translated by Will Schutt Published when the war was still raging north of Rome, Internee Number 6 is the first memoir of the fascist…

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