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 of the world’s foremost…
Books
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 (1919-1987) started reflecting…
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 southern Italian town in…
Answering Auschwitz
Stanislao Pugliese, editor, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall, Fordham University Press, 2011 More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo…
Paper Lives
Paper Lives- Survival and Deportation in San Donato Val Comino, 1940-1943 Anna Pizzuti’s website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War…
War and revolution in Yugoslavia
Jozo Tomasevich, War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration, Stanford University Press, 2001 This is the long-awaited second part of the author’s meticulously researched and scrupulously impartial study…
From Fascism to Democracy
Robert Ventresca, From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, University of Toronto Press, 2004 From Fascism to Democracy tells the story of the birth…
A Nation Collapses
Elena Agarossi, A Nation Collapses, Cambridge University Press, 2000 “I will compare the objectives set by the parties involved in Italy’s surrender with the results achieved, and consider in a…