“The Tragic Couple”
James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks, “The Tragic Couple” Encounters Between Jews and Jesuit, Brill 2013 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in…
Books
Père Marie-Benoît
Susan Zuccotti, Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust, Indiana University Press, 2003 Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and…
Salamone Rossi
Don Harrán, Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua, Oxford Monographs on Music, 2003 Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture:…
Natalia Ginzburg’s Complete Plays
Natalia Ginzburg, Wendell Ricketts, The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg, Indiana University Press, 2013 The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of…
Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy
Ben Earle, Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear…
A Civil War
Claudio Pavone, Peter Levy (Translator), A Civil War, Verso, 2013 ‘Pavone’s study of the struggle between the Resistance and the Fascist Republican regime, A Civil War, has…
Sarajevo, 1941-1945
Emily Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe, Cornell University Press, 2011 On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany’s 16th Motorized Infantry…
A Marriage in War and Peace
Alexander Stille, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Elizabeth and Misha,…
The Chosen Few
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, Princeton University Press, 2012 In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and…
Jews on Trial
Kathrine Aaron Beller, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638, Manchester University Press, 2011 Jews on Trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period…