Italy and Me

What's it like— being Jewish in Italy?

Especially when you're a mildly observant foreign Jew like me?

Social and cultural affinity kick in.

And it isn't always "religion" that matters most.

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Here you meet photographer Lyle Goldberg, who contributed much of this site's visual content.

You see him at work in Italy, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Israel and Uzbekistan —just to begin the list.

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In this interview with Hasan Niyazi, I answer probing questions that I would never have thought to ask myself regarding life in Italy, archival research, digital innovation and the not-so-slow death of the humanities in Academe.

Italy has been in the picture with me as long as I can remember.

Thereby hangs many a tale...

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