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The Ghetto Reveals Rome

Luca Fiorentino, The Ghetto Reveals Rome, Gangemi editore, 2005 Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks…

The Holocaust and the Book

Jonathan Rose, The Holocaust and the Book, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008 Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act…

Fascism and the Jews

Salvatore Garau, Daniel Tilles, Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Vallentine Mitchell,  2011 Franklin Adler. Review of Garau, Salvatore; Tilles, Daniel, eds., Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain….

The Scandal of Kabbalah

Yaacob Dweck, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice, Princeton University Press, 2011 The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a…

The Hebrew Book in Italy

Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 “A remarkably valuable contribution to the cultural history of the Jews in…

The Culture of Consent

Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy,  Cambridge University Press, 2002 The efforts of fascism to form a ‘culture of consent,’ or shape…