Fox on Linhard, ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory
Spain’s Jewish Absence In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Hannah Arendt noted that “even Franco, in a country where there are neither Jews nor a Jewish question,…
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Italy’s unique form of Judaism
Italy’s unique form of Judaism bows to Israeli Orthodoxy Young rabbis educated abroad, with a stricter and less worldly approach, are replacing the old guard epitomized by Rome’s powerful Rabbi…
Days of Holocaust Remembrance in the European Union
Days of Holocaust Remembrance in the European Union: The Challenges of Commemoration in the Twenty-first Century April 13, 2.30 pm – 6:00 pm and April 14, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm…
The Auschwitz Report
Auschwitz Report Paperback, Verso; Reprint edition (March 3, 2015) Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery. While in a Russian-administered holding camp in…
The Pope Who Tried
During the past fifty years, most of the debate on the Catholic Church’s relationship with fascism has focused on the wartime period and the Vatican’s response to the Holocaust. Did…
Italian Jewish Culture in Denver
The culture of Italian Jewry is unlike any other Jewish culture in the world. Their history goes back more than 2000 years to before the first exile from Jerusalem after…
The Nação in the Eternal City
James Nelson Novoa, Being the Nação in the Eternal City: New Christian Lives in Sixteenth-Century Rome (Peterborough, Ontario: Baywolf Press, 2014) James Nelson Novoa’s Being the Nação in the Eternal…
Italian Jewish Women Artists in the 20th Century
Between June and October 2014, an exhibition entitled Artiste del Novecento tra visione e identità ebraica [Women Artists of the Twentieth Century/Vision and Jewish Identity] was held at the Galleria…
Monumenti per difetto
Adachiara Zevi, Monumenti per difetto: dalle Fosse Ardeatine alle pietre d’inciampo, Donzelli, 2014 The title of this publication announces a short history of monuments “by defect”, but just what sort…
Sixty Years Fighting Oblivion
The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan In a collection of essays published by Yad Vashem in 2009, David Bankier and Dan Michman devote one chapter to the simultaneous…