The Holocaust and the Book
Jonathan Rose, The Holocaust and the Book, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008 Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act…
Books
Fascism and the Jews
Salvatore Garau, Daniel Tilles, Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Vallentine Mitchell, 2011 Franklin Adler. Review of Garau, Salvatore; Tilles, Daniel, eds., Fascism and the…
The Scandal of Kabbalah
Yaacob Dweck, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Princeton University Press, 2011 The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about…
The Hebrew Book in Italy
Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 “A remarkably valuable contribution to the cultural history…
The Culture of Consent
Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2002 The efforts of fascism to form a ‘culture…
Synagogues of Piedmont
Franco Lattes, Paola Valentini, Words, Images, Objects, and Architectures of the Synagogues of Piedmont, Umberto Allemandi, 2009 Born from the collaboration between the Jewish Community of Turin and one of…
Italian Jews in the Modern Era
Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione. Carocci editore, Rome, 2014 Marina Caffiero’s new book offers an engaging overview of the situation of the Jews of…
Fossoli
A New Book on the Transit Camp of Fossoli by Liliana Picciotto Liliana Picciotto’s new volume – L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel campo…
Dictating Demography
Carl Ipsen, Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2002 Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between…
Building a New Man
Francesco Cassata, Building a New Man: Eugenics, Racial Sciences and Genetics in Twentieth Century Italy, CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine, 2011 Analyzes the…