Books

Arduous Task

        Lina Insana, Arduous Task: Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, University of Toronto Press, 2009 One of twentieth-century Italy’s greatest thinkers, Primo Levi…

New Reflections on Primo Levi

        Risa Sodi, Millicent Marcus, New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and After Auschwitz, Palgave McMillan, 2011 “It is usually said that the life of a writer…

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz

Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and…

The Jews of San Nicandro

        John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble…

Answering Auschwitz

        Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press, 2011 More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer…

Paper Lives

Paper Lives- Survival and Deportation in San Donato Val Comino, 1940-1943 Anna Pizzuti’s website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War…

War and revolution in Yugoslavia

        Jozo Tomasevich, War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration, Stanford University Press, 2001 This is the long-awaited second part of the author’s meticulously researched…

From Fascism to Democracy

        Robert Ventresca, From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, University of Toronto Press, 2004 From Fascism to Democracy tells the…

A Nation Collapses

        Elena Agarossi, A Nation Collapses, Cambridge University Press, 2000 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church…

History vc. Apologetics

        David Cymet, History vc. Apologetics, Lexington Books, 2010 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church that…