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Academia, Books October 16, 2025

La Storia

Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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Academia, Essays April 29, 2016

From Odessa to Florence

From Odessa to Florence: Elena Comparetti Raffalovich. “Non capisco come possono affollare chiese e sinagoghe, quando si puo avere come tempio l’universo interno Abstract In the nineteenth and the first…

News April 29, 2016

Pius XII and the Holocaust

Pius XII and the Holocaust. Current State of Research. On March 8-9, 2009  Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research  and the Salesian Theological Institute of Saints Peter and Paul…

Academia April 29, 2016

Migration, Exchange, Collision

Call for Paper “Memory Moves: Migration, Exchange, Collision” The Memory Studies Network of the German Studies Association (GSA) invites panel or individual paper proposals for the 2016 GSA Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, from Sept. 29th to…

Academia April 29, 2016

Local and Sectional Memories

Call for Contributor – Remembering the Second World War – ‘Local and Sectional Memories’ Following a last-minute withdrawal, I am seeking a replacement contributor for an edited book on the…