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    Cover of Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile
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    Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
    Eleanor Foa
    Cover of Happiness, as Such
    Fic­tion
    Hap­pi­ness, as Such
    Natalia Ginzburg (auth.), Minna Proctor (trans.)
    Essay

    The For­tu­nate Foàs of Sabbioneta

    Eleanor Foa
    November 4, 2019
    Cover of The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero
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    The Brave Cyclist: The True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Hero
    Amalia Hoffman; Chiara Fedele, illus.
    Cover of The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
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    The Ital­ian Exe­cu­tion­ers: The Geno­cide of the Jews of Italy
    Simon Levis Sullam; Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane, trans.
    Cover of The Novel of Ferrara
    Fic­tion
    The Nov­el of Ferrara
    Giorgio Bassani; Jamie McKendrick, trans.; André Aciman, fwd.
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    Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Ronald H. Balson

    JBC Staff
    March 4, 2019
    Cover of The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
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    The Jew­ish Ghet­to and the Visu­al Imag­i­na­tion of Ear­ly Mod­ern Venice
    Dana E. Katz
    Cover of Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
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    Italy’s Jews from Eman­ci­pa­tion to Fascism
    Shira Klein
    Cover of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
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    Immi­grants Against the State: Yid­dish and Ital­ian Anar­chism in America
    Kenyon Zimmer
    Cover of Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy
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    Pri­mo Levi’s Resis­tance: Rebels and Col­lab­o­ra­tors in Occu­pied Italy
    Sergio Luzzatto; Frederika Randall, trans.
    Cover of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
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    Mediter­ranean Enlight­en­ment: Livor­nese Jews, Tus­can Cul­ture, and Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Reform
    Francesca Bregoli
    Cover of Tamar of Venice
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    Tamar of Venice
    Ella Verzov & Chana Oirechman
    Cover of Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome
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    Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome
    Maris­sa Moss
    Cover of Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy
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    Cul­tur­al Inter­me­di­aries: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
    David B. Ruderman; Giuseppe Veltri, eds.
    Cover of Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews: Traditional Menus and Recipes
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    Clas­sic Cui­sine of the Ital­ian Jews: Tra­di­tion­al Menus and Recipes
    Edda Servi Machlin
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