By Brandon Moyer*
As an Economics and Finance student living in the U.S., I have always been fascinated with the financial structures of our economy and its history. Being of Italian descent myself, I thought that it would be …
For the Italian scholar Elèna Mortara, the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is both family history and subject of research. After having explored the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of that period in the book Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping …
For almost a century and a half “The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara”, the painting realized in 1862 by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, was thought to be lost. It then re-emerged in 2013 and was bought by the American Schottenstein family, thus …
By Maiya Urquhart*
I have had the privilege of experiencing the foods of many cultures. Eating is universal, but the variety of world cuisine is endless. I grew up with a Jewish mother, which means I constantly experienced the …
From Elie Wiesel to Willy Brandt, from Jacob Finci to Liliana Segre. Great figures of our time who have in common the characteristic of having won, at different times, the annual prize conferred by the International Primo Levi Studies Center …
“The scroll burns, but the letters fly away”; the plaque set some years ago in Campo de’ Fiori (Rome) reminds us about what happened there on the 9th of September 1553. About 50 years before Giordano Bruno (an Italian Dominican …
By Noa Jurmann*
Ever since I was little, I have loved art: going to museums, walking through all of the different exhibits, strolling leisurely through the brightly lit halls, and gazing at the different types of art: sculptures, landscape …
“Until I was eight and a half years old, my mother tongue was German. When I arrived in Israel, I no longer had anyone to talk with in it and as a kid started studying Hebrew. But the mother tongue …
“Roaming through dates doesn’t mean to create a timeline, which by the way this book doesn’t have. It means proposing a journey through a history made of very different events, with their echo, their consequences, and their posterity”. So Pierre …
Almost 700 pages full of information, events, and stimuli. Over 200 illustrations created to intrigue and fascinate young readers even more. These are the numbers, eloquent in themselves, that introduce us to the world of “My Torah” series, the project …