The Flood in Florence, 1966
The Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, University Library of Michigan Nearly five decades have passed since the Arno River in Florence, Italy, flooded its banks on November 4, 1966, breaching the basements and first floors of museums, libraries,…
Laura Capon
By her daughter Nella Fermi Weiner (1931 – 1995). Courtesy Olivia Fermi Second Draft of unpublished manuscript dated, Sept 18, 1994 First Publication: posthumous, © Olivia Fermi 2009 Comments or edits by Olivia Fermi are indicated with square brackets: […
Amelia Rosselli
Exile. from: La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana Aldo Rosselli. Translated by Inga Pierson At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on the front porch of the little house at 9 Clark…
An Antifascist Between Italy and the United States
Isabelle Richet (Université Paris Diderot), Altre Italie Review: Davide Grippa, Un antifascista tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Democrazia e identità nazionale nel pensiero di Max Ascoli (1898-1947) Long ignored by the historiography of Italian antifascism, Max Ascoli has recently been…
Fascist Antisemitism in the US
Stefano Lucani, , American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 NO. 1 & 2 (2004) Scholars have long contended that anti-Semitism in fascist Italy was a much milder version than its counterpart in Nazi Germany. In this view Italy was a latecomer to…
Italy and the Voice of America
Sandro Gerbi, Americordo Conference, Columbia University, 2010 On the evening of January 20, 1944, in Lima, Peru, my father Antonello sat down to write a long letter to his two brothers living in New York – Giuliano, a journalist with…
One Family, Two Diverging Experiences in Fascist Italy
Alessandro Cassin interviews Andrew Viterbi and Erna Finci Viterbi “Only where things can be seen by many in a variety of aspects without changing their identity, so that those who are gathered around them know they see sameness in utter…
My Political Autobiography: Tullia Zevi
Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria we would like to share a speech that Ms. Zevi gave at the Circolo Rosselli in Florence,…
“I nostri compagni d’America”: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Rescue of Italian Antifascists, 1934-1941
Catherine Collomp, Université Paris VII. Reprinted by permission, Altre Italie After the German army’s invasion of France in June 1940, hundreds of Italian antifascists, most of whom had been refugees in this country for over a decade, were part of…