Giovanni Enriques
Centro Primo Levi congratulates Sandro Gerbi On November 21st, the cultural historian and journalist Sandro Gerbi will be awarded the 2014 Premio Biella—a book prize devoted to the intersections of…
Books
An Antifascist Between Italy and the United States
Davide Grippa, Un antifascista tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Democrazia e identità nazionale nel pensiero di Max Ascoli (1898-1947) Long ignored by the historiography of Italian antifascism, Max Ascoli has…
Medieval Salento
The Medieval Salento : Art and Identity in Southern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse…
A Legal Examination of Mussolini’s Race Laws
Rutgers Law Prof’s New Book Delivers Comprehensive Legal Examination of Mussolini’s Race Laws Michael Livingstone, The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws, 1938-1943 Cambridge University Press While…
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform, Stanford University Press 2014 The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of…
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Intellectual History Research does not always proceed according to a predetermined plan. In some cases, the opposite is true:…
Gentile on Kertzer
Some Observations on Catholicism, Fascism and Totalitarianism During the Papacy of Pius XI. On David L. Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise…
The Jews of Italy 1848–1915
Elizabeth Schächter, The Jews of Italy 1848–1915 Between Tradition and Transformation, Vallentine Mitchell, 2011 Much has been written about the Jews during the Fascist regime, but the period from…
Love and the Idea of Europe
Luisa Passerini, Love and the Idea of Europe, translated by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009 Review (Jan Georg Soeffner) When conceiving of being European, love…
The Jews of Libya
Maurice Roumani, The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement, Sussex Academic Press, 2008 This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938–52), a period…