Fascist Voices
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…
Books
From Enemy to Brother
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 that God loves the…
In the Society of Fascists
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…
After Mussolini
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. Gli Ebrei nell’Italia postfascista…
From Enemy to Brother
John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother. The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 2012, pp. 365 The historiographical debate over twentieth-century…
Dawn Came Upon
Dawn Came Upon Us Like a Betrayer: Jews in the Camp of Fossoli 1943-1944 This article is based on the introduction to Liliana Picciotto’s book: L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli…
Threads and Traces
Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University of California Press, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a…
Mussolini and Fascism
John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber (Institute for Historical Review), America’s Changing View of Mussolini and Italian Fascism America’s image…
The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010
Robert Gordon, The Holocaust and Italian Culture: 1944-2010, Stanford University Press, 2012 The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed…
The Enemy of the New Man
Lorenzo Benadusi, The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in Fascist Italy, Lorenzo Benadusi…