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    Items with the tag:

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    Essay

    Explor­ing the Gold­en Age of Ital­ian Jews

    Gino Seg­rè
    August 11, 2025
    Cover of The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938
    Non­fic­tion
    The Gold­en Age of Ital­ian Jews: 1848 – 1938
    Gino Seg­rè
    Cover of The Red House
    Fic­tion
    The Red House
    Mary Mor­ris
    Cover of The Trunk
    Fic­tion
    The Trunk
    Alberto Vigevani; Wil Schutt, trans.
    Essay

    Uncov­er­ing Buried His­to­ry: A Deten­tion Cen­ter on the Out­skirts of Alberobello

    Mary Mor­ris
    May 12, 2025
    Cover of This Darkness Will Never End
    Fic­tion
    This Dark­ness Will Nev­er End
    Edith Bruck; Jeanne Bonner, trans.
    Essay

    Untan­gling His­to­ry: Writ­ing ​‘One Good Thing’

    Geor­gia Hunter
    March 3, 2025
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    Fic­tion
    One Good Thing
    Geor­gia Hunter
    Cover of Internee Number 6
    Non­fic­tion
    Internee Num­ber 6
    Maria Eisenstein; Will Schutt, trans.
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    Non­fic­tion
    Roman Year: A Memoir
    André Aci­man
    Cover of Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians Who Lived Through Fascism and the Holocaust
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    Days of Mem­o­ry: Lis­ten­ing to Jew­ish Ital­ians Who Lived Through Fas­cism and the Holocaust
    Judith Monachi­na
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    Chil­dren’s
    Friends to the Rescue
    Ellen Schwartz; Alison Mutton, illus.
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    The For­got­ten Ital­ian Restaurant
    Bar­bara Josselsohn
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    The Curse of Pietro Houdini
    Derek B. Miller
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    Chil­dren’s
    Across So Many Seas
    Ruth Behar
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    The Guardian of Mem­o­ry: Aldo Izzo and the Ancient Jew­ish Ceme­tery of Venice
    Marjorie Agosín; Alison Ridley, trans; Samuel Shats, photography
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