Conflicts of Memories
Emiliano Perra, Conflicts of Memories, Peter Lang, 2010 Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and…
Books
Fascism’s European Empire
Davide Rodogno, Fascism’s European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 2006 A controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean…
The Missing Italian Nuremberg
Michele Battini, The Missing Italian Nuremberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 “Battini’s excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military…
Early Modern Jewry
David Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press, 2010 Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish…
Resistance and Shoah
Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on the different uses of memory of the Resistence and…
Dialogues of Love
Leone Ebreo, Translator: Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori, Leone Ebreo: Dialogues of Love, University of Toronto Press, 2009 More about Leone Ebreo from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published…
Sarra Copia Sullam
Don Harrán, Sarra Copia Sullam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice, University of Chicago Press, 2009 The first Jewish woman to leave her mark…
In corpore
Loredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross, In corpore: bodies in post-unification Italy, Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007 In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and…
Ideology in Stone
How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history as an objective and time resistant benchmark. Throughout the centuries totalitarian regimes have erected…
Giovanni Palatucci
Giovanni Palatucci Between History and Hagiography Alessandro Cassin interviews Marco Coslovich Of the trends that have characterized the debate on the Shoah in Italy the one…