“Je me sentais trahi par l’Italie: c’était pas deux fascistes qui m’avaient arrêté, mais deux gendarmes en uniforme. Et puis, en Israël on voulait construire une société et un Pays meilleurs.” Israel Corrado De Benedetti racontait ainsi à Pagine Ebraiche, …
By Laura Mincer*
In an essay soon to be published, the Franco-Bulgarian art historian and scholar Neli Dobreva subjects the 9/11 memorials in New York to rigorous criticism (not without reason). A criticism also due to their, more or less …
By Anna Foa*
It may seem strange, perhaps, but one of the most debated problems in the Jewish world, at least since emancipation and the encounter with modernity but even before, if we think of Josephus or Spinoza, is …
By David Bidussa*
“We cannot expect newcomers to integrate into existing cultural practices without having the opportunity to contribute”. So Yasha Mounk, in his book “The great experiment: Why diverse democracies fall apart and how they can endure” (recently …
By Laura Mincer*
At the end of 1920s, Mojżesz Kanfer and Wilhelm Berkelhammer, two great Polish-Jewish intellectuals and critics, wrote: “Jews are the Ukraine of peoples, they live at the boundaries f peoples” and also: “You can find all …
Par Alberto Cavaglion*
Le dernier livre de Daniel Mendelsohn, “Trois anneaux : un conte d’exils” (Flammarion), est un vrai chef-d’œuvre. Un livre si lié aux deux précédents (Les Disparus, 2007 ; Une Odyssée, 2017) qui on peut penser qu’il …
By David Bidussa*
Lessons from America: a right attained is not forever.
*Social historian of ideas…
By Gadi Luzzatto Voghera*
Reading The only daughter (Einaudi 2021), the last present that Abraham B. Yehoshua gave us, can’t leave us indifferent. This short story was immediately translated into Italian by the talented Alessandra Shomroni. It couldn’t be otherwise, …
Abraham B. Yehoshua’s passion for Italy has ancient roots. The one who made him more familiar with it was, among others, a great friend: Carlo Andrea Mortara, an economist and advisor to various ministers, who was connected to him by …
By Francesco Moises Bassano
When we speak of Giorgio Bassani, what comes to mind is, above all, the novelist. However, what is perhaps less well-known is the author’s commitment to safeguarding the Italian artistic and cultural heritage, which stood out …