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Fossoli

      A New Book on the Transit Camp of Fossoli by Liliana Picciotto   Liliiana Picciotto’s new volume –  L’alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel…

Stella Levi Honored

Stella Levi to Be Honored at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Alessandro Cassin interviews Stella Levi On June 2, CPL Board member, Stella Levi will be honored at the Museum…

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…