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…

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…

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…

Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, Francesca Trivellato, From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond, Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 2009 Published by three historians who trained with Professor Anthony…

David Ruderman, Preachers of the Italian Ghetto, University of California Press, 1992 By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a…

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David Ben Judah Messer Leon, State University of New York Press, 1991 Italian rabbi, physician and writer David ben Judah…