After Mussolini
After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy. In 1922, in a Vienna where anti-Jewish sentiments were intense and exploited by various political movement, the Austrian-Jewish writer Hugo…
Essays
From Musa Dagh to Masada
How Franz Werfel’s novel about the Armenian Genocide inspired the Warsaw Ghetto fighters and the Zionist resistance A crowded hotel lobby in Breslau in late 1932. People waited there to…
Holocaust Music
Why the new “Holocaust Music” is an insult to music and the the victims of the Shoah In the never-ending search for ways to remember the Holocaust, the newest…
An Evening for Bianca
On January 25th, 2016, was a special evening at the Italian Cultural Institute. The occasion was the launching of Primo Levi, The Friend by Bianca Guidetti Serra, CPL Editions, 2015….
Writing for Justice: Rethinking the Saga of Edgardo Mortara
“A masterful examination of what must be one of the most intriguing figures of mid-nineteenth-century American literature, Writing for Justice reflects a refreshing transnational turn in literary study.”—David I….
Lagersprache: Primo Levi and the Language of Survival
In a story from 1976 entitled “Decoding” (Decodificazione), Primo Levi investigates the appearance of swastikas and Fascist graffiti in a small Italian town.[1] Discovering they were made by a disaffected teenager,…
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah
The Church and the Memory of the Shoah: The Catholic Press in Italy, 1945-1947 Relatively few studies have dealt with the manner in which the Catholic Church, in the…
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism
The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism seeks to cover the history of the “anti-fascist paradigm”, namely anti-Fascism held as the backbone of the Italian Republic, from its inception to its decline. Its…
German and Italian cultures of memory
Christoph Cornelißen, © Eutopia Magazine If discussion turns today to cultures of memory, these are mostly thought to involve the variety of national forms that they take: days of remembrance and…
From the Front of the Great War
Letters from Italian Jewish soldiers in World War I – who would die in the Holocaust The Anticolis, for instance, had 13 children, of whom four would fight in WWI:…