Books

      A New Book on the Transit Camp of Fossoli by Liliana Picciotto   Liliiana Picciotto’s new volume –  L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel…

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 1922 and 1945 the…

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 Italian case study with…

  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 sources to reexamine…

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…

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 classics and of…

  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 well documented guide…

  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 years, from Antiquity…

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 of the world’s foremost…