The Familiarity of Strangers
Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early...
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Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy
Roberto Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, University of California Press, 1994 With this heady exploration of...
Outside the Party Lines
An intellectual biography of the antifascist Carlo Rosselli by Alexander Stille (The New York Times) Carlo...
History as Memory
History as Memory: Conversation with Sergio Parussa by Alessandro Cassin Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony,...
Boualem Sansal Pays Tribute to Primo Levi
In a Complex New Book, Algerian Novelist Boualem Sansal Pays Tribute to Primo Levi. Alessandro...
Benevolence and Betrayal
Alexander Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, Picador, 2003 Winner of...
Piero Sraffa
Alessandro Roncaglia, Piero Sraffa: His life, thought and cultural heritage, Routledge, 2000-2009 This is a...
This Has Happened
Piera Sonnino (Ann Goldstein, translator), This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008...
A Woman from Rome
Lily Tuck, A Woman from Rome: Elsa Morante, Harper Collins, 2008 Elsa Morante was born in...
The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy
Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy – From Equality to Persecution, The University of Wisconsin,...