Books

Emiliano Perra, Conflicts of Memories, Peter Lang, 2010 Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of…

Davide Rodogno, Fascism’s European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 2006 A controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World…

Michele Battini, The Missing Italian Nuremberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 “Battini’s excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military command in Italy for…

        David Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press, 2010 Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish…

Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on the different uses of memory of the Resistance and of the Shoah, which…

Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009 More about Leone Ebreo from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published…

Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago Press, 2009 The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and…

How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history as an objective and time resistant benchmark. Throughout the centuries totalitarian regimes have erected…

Of the trends that have characterized the debate on the Shoah in Italy the one focusing on the “rescuers” or alleged rescuers has recently come back in fashion. Among these,…