Forced Baptisms
Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome, University of California Press, 2011 This book makes use of newly available archival…
Books
Prisoners of Hope
Stuart Hughes, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974, Harvard University Press, 1996 The years between 1924 and 1974 may indeed have been a silver age…
Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism
Arnaldo Momigliano, Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism, University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the…
Treasures from Rome
Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome : Guide to the Museum and Its Collection, Araldo De Luca, 2011 A beautifully illustrated and…
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews In Sicily, Brill, 2011 The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand…
Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510
Moshe Idel, Kabbalah in Italy: 1280-1510, Yale University Press, 2011 This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one…
Arduous Task
Lina Insana, Arduous Task: Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony, University of Toronto Press, 2009 One of twentieth-century Italy’s greatest thinkers, Primo Levi…
New Reflections on Primo Levi
Risa Sodi, Millicent Marcus, New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and After Auschwitz, Palgave McMillan, 2011 “It is usually said that the life of a writer…
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz, University of Toronto Press, 2009 The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and…
The Jews of San Nicandro
John Davis, The Jews of San Nicandro, Yale University Press, 2010 Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble…