Conversation with Lia Levi
Alessandro Cassin Lia Levi’s new novel, The Jewish Husband, Europa Editions, 2009 provides a poignant reflection on the far-reaching consequences of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish legislation of 1938. The novel illustrates…
Books
Jewish Dogs
Kenneth Stow, Jewish Dogs, Stanford University Press, 2006 Jewish Dogs is not a study of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Judaism.” Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have…
Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome
Kenneth Stow, Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome, Ashgate, 2007 The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow explore the fate of Jews living in Rome, directly under the…
The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust
Robert Weisbord, Wallace Sillanpoa, The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust, Transaction Publishers, 1991 In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome’s ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists…
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
Richard Breitman, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, Cambridge University Press, 2004 This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act….
Disciplining the Holocaust
Karyn Ball, Disciplining the Holocaust. Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, SUNY Press, 2008 Disciplining the Holocaust is a brave, multileveled, and important intervention that presages a new type of historical meditation,…
Unmaking of the Middle East
Jeremy Salt, Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Land, Berkeley University of California Press, 2008 Written for those who want to know more about the…
From Empathy to Denial
Meir Litvak, Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2009 Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and…
Blooming Through the Ashes
Clifford Chanin and Aili McConnon, Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology of Violence and the Human Spirit, Rutgers University Press, 2008 The twentieth century is frequently characterized in terms…
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon
Götz Nordbruch, Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945, Routledge, 2009 The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and…