A European Memory?
Magorzata Pakier, Bo Stråth, A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, 2010 “As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory concept for a broad…
Books
Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2010 Between 1926 and 1943, the Fascist regime arrested thousands of Italians and deported them to island internment colonies and…
Fascism and the Police
Jonathan Dunnage, The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism, Cambridge University Press, 1998 Based on research using official documents, this account of the role of the police in the…
The Ghetto Reveals Rome
Luca Fiorentino, The Ghetto Reveals Rome, Gangemi editore, 2005 Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks…
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…
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 Jews: Italy and Britain….
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 origins of a…
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 of the Jews in…
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 of consent,’ or shape…
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…