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Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

Academia, Books 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”. …

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Books, Essays February 10, 2026

Blurring the Boundaries

The Renaissance and the Ottoman, edited by Anna Contadini and Claire Norton, Routledge, 2013 The Renaissance is commonly understood as a distinctly Western, European, Christian phenomenon. We might think of…

Books February 10, 2026

The Talking Dead

On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…

News December 18, 2025

Invited to Think

Alessandro Cassin interviews Ethan Wolff about his work with the Thought Gallery. New, good ideas thrive when they reveal and meet previously unrecognized needs. This is the case of a…

News December 13, 2025

The Printshop at Bookhouse

The American Sephardi Federation and Centro Primo Levi are expanding the scope of Bookhouse with a traditional Print Shop offering letterpress printing and book arts, exploring Hebrew’s encounters with other…

Academia, Books 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…