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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, Books, Essays September 10, 2015

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…

Books September 10, 2015

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…

Academia, Books September 10, 2015

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…

Essays September 10, 2015

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…

Academia September 10, 2015

Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism (1780-1950)

Seminar, Oxford: Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism (1780-1950) Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: the Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950) October 2016 to March 2017 Project Leaders:  Abigail Green (Brasenose…

Academia, Books September 10, 2015

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…