Writer Elena Ferrante is daughter of Holocaust survivor, says journalist The mysterious best-selling Italian author has been identified by an Italian investigative journalist as Rome-based Anita Raja, a translator who specializes in translating from German into Italian. October 5, 2016 6:25 am
First Babylonian Talmud in Italian publishing initial volume The Rosh Hashanah tractate will be ceremonially presented to Italy’s president on April 5, five years from the start of the state-funded project. March 29, 2016 6:45 am
The Jewish translator behind Elena Ferrante — and Primo Levi Ann Goldstein — whose "day job" is as an editor at the New Yorker — is the woman behind the success, in English, of the elusive Italian author. March 8, 2016 3:25 pm