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Books, Essays 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…

News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

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Essays March 27, 2013

Ordinary Italians and genocide 1943-45

January 27, Remembrance Day: ordinary Italians and genocide 1943-45 What is a genocide and how does it occur? This is a question that we Italians can and should ask as…

Interviews March 26, 2013

The Church and the Righteous

The Church and the Righteous. Susan Zuccotti in conversation with Alessandro Cassin Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, archbishop of Florence during World War II, has recently been named Righteous Among the…

Books March 26, 2013

After Mussolini

Guri’s Schwarz’s After Mussolini: Review by Paul Arpaia After Mussolini: Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy, the translation of Guri Schwarz’s Ritrovare se stessi. Gli Ebrei nell’Italia postfascista…

Books March 26, 2013

From Enemy to Brother

John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother. The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 2012, pp. 365 The historiographical debate over twentieth-century…

Books March 26, 2013

Dawn Came Upon

Dawn Came Upon Us Like a Betrayer: Jews in the Camp of Fossoli 1943-1944 This article is based on the introduction to Liliana Picciotto’s book: L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli…