Books

        Claudio Pavone, Peter Levy (Translator), A Civil War, Verso, 2013 ‘Pavone’s study of the struggle between the Resistance and the Fascist Republican regime, A Civil War, has…

        Emily Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe, Cornell University Press, 2011 On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany’s 16th Motorized Infantry…

        Alexander Stille, The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Elizabeth and Misha,…

        Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, Princeton University Press, 2012 In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and…

        Kathrine Aaron Beller, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638, Manchester University Press, 2011 Jews on Trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period…

Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy, Oxford University Press, 2013 Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in…

        John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Harvard University Press, 2012 In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared…

        Roberta Pergher, Giulia Albanese (Editors), In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 It has been a commonplace in…

        Guri’s Schwarz’s After Mussolini: Review by Paul Arpaia After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy, the translation of Guri Schwarz’s Ritrovare se stessi….