U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
Richard Breitman, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, Cambridge University Press, 2004 This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act….
Books
Disciplining the Holocaust
Karyn Ball, Disciplining the Holocaust. Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, SUNY Press, 2008 Disciplining the Holocaust is a brave, multileveled, and important intervention that presages a new type of historical meditation,…
Unmaking of the Middle East
Jeremy Salt, Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Land, Berkeley University of California Press, 2008 Written for those who want to know more about the…
From Empathy to Denial
Meir Litvak, Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2009 Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and…
Blooming Through the Ashes
Clifford Chanin and Aili McConnon, Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology of Violence and the Human Spirit, Rutgers University Press, 2008 The twentieth century is frequently characterized in terms…
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon
Götz Nordbruch, Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945, Routledge, 2009 The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and…
From Florence
Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, Francesca Trivellato, From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond, Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 2009 Published by three historians who trained with Professor Anthony…
Preachers of the Italian Ghetto
David Ruderman, Preachers of the Italian Ghetto, University of California Press, 1992 By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a…
Between Worlds
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David Ben Judah Messer Leon, State University of New York Press, 1991 Italian rabbi, physician and writer David ben Judah…
Resisting Alterities
Marco Fazzini, Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness, Rodopi, 2004 This volume – of essays, poetry, and prose fiction – records various attempts to read the fracture…