Shadal on Exodus
Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the…
Books
The Historical Uncanny
Vicarious Witnessing at the Boundaries of Holocaust Memory The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory is an ambitious work, offering nuanced and insightful studies of lesser-known…
Un “plan Marshall juif”
Scott-Weaver on Hobson Faure, ‘Un “plan Marshall juif”: La présence juive américaine en France après la Shoah, 1944-1954’ American Jewish Philanthropy and Jewish Reconstruction in Postwar France Laura Hobson Faure’s…
The Valmadonna Library
The Writing on the Wall. A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library PREFACE Now the wise ones . . . should read the writing [on the wall]…
Quaestio De Centauris
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s complete works will be available in English for the first time. Norton’s Liveright imprint…
Architectural and Urban Histories
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under Italian fascist rule lie questions of political allegiance and valence. How ‘fascist’ were the…
The Fascist Effect
Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915–1952, Cornell University Press, 2015 During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between…
Censorship
Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, Toronto University Press, 2007 The interest in Fascist editorial and ideological politics has produced some excellent work in the last decade, including Giorgio Fabre’s…
Translations in Fascist Italy
In the 1930s translation became a key issue in the cultural politics of the Fascist regime due to the fact that Italy was publishing more translations than any other country…
Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics: The Painter as Writer
What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer? Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of…