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Books March 12, 2024

These Thoughts of Mine

These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944, edited by Guri Schwarz, Yad Vashem 2023 Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was an Italian Jewish intellectual….

Essays September 19, 2023

The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet

This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter, sonnets are sometimes structured into stanzas of an octet and a sestet or of…

Books in Italian July 18, 2023

Thanks Goodness I Am Here

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Ringrazio il cielo di essere qui Lettere a Alberto Carocci da Larchmont e Beverly Hills 1939/41.  Alessandro Panajia, Ed. Le Sillabe, Florence, 2021  In July 1939, Mario and Clara…

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News January 29, 2010

The Italian Jewish Press

The New Mobility of Italian Jewish Press: Pagine Ebraiche Alessandro Cassin interviews Guido Vitale In a time when media empires are crumbling and journalism seems like a dying profession, the…

Books January 29, 2010

War and revolution in Yugoslavia

        Jozo Tomasevich, War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration, Stanford University Press, 2001 This is the long-awaited second part of the author’s meticulously researched…

Books January 29, 2010

From Fascism to Democracy

        Robert Ventresca, From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948, University of Toronto Press, 2004 From Fascism to Democracy tells the…

Books January 29, 2010

A Nation Collapses

        Elena Agarossi, A Nation Collapses, Cambridge University Press, 2000 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church…

Books January 29, 2010

History vc. Apologetics

        David Cymet, History vc. Apologetics, Lexington Books, 2010 “This work is bound to be controversial and will be attacked by those forces within the Church that…

Books January 29, 2010

Conflicts of Memories

        Emiliano Perra, Conflicts of Memories, Peter Lang, 2010 Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and…