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Dictating Demography

Carl Ipsen, Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2002 Mussolini believed that numbers were the key to strength. Between 1922 and 1945 the…

Building a New Man

Francesco Cassata, Building a New Man: Eugenics, Racial Sciences and Genetics in Twentieth Century Italy, CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine, 2011 Analyzes the Italian case study with…

Forced Baptisms

  Marina Caffiero, Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome, University of California Press, 2011 This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine…

Prisoners of Hope

Stuart Hughes, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974, Harvard University Press, 1996 The years between 1924 and 1974 may indeed have been a silver age…

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism

Arnaldo Momigliano, Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism, University Of Chicago Press, 1994   Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of…

Treasures from Rome

  Daniela Di Castro, Treasures of the Jewish Museum of Rome : Guide to the Museum and Its Collection, Araldo De Luca, 2011 A beautifully illustrated and well documented guide…