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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…

Essays, Interviews June 9, 2025

Thruth and the Holocaust

“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …

Essays September 2, 2024

Hatching the Cobra

Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…

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Interviews March 26, 2011

A Storyteller’s Tale

This is a story of light and shadows: it belongs to one of the people whose lives have been touched by the events reconstructed in Anna Pizzuti’s book Paper Lives…

Essays March 26, 2011

The Auschwitz Experiment

The second Primo Levi Lecture was presented by Massimo Bucciantini, Professor of History of Science at the University of Siena-Arezzo, on November 11, 2010. A large audience and three classes…

Interviews March 26, 2011

Fascist Imperial Dreams

Fascist Imperial Dreams, a conversation with Davide Rodogno by Alessandro Cassin Mussolini’s short-lived empire has often been thought of dismissively as an operetta affair. In addition to its colonies in…

News March 26, 2011

Memory, Neglected.

  Memory, Neglected. The Italian Memorial in Auschwitz Alessandro Cassin Memorialization of the Shoah and its possible expression through art have been stirring passionate debates over the past 40 years….

Essays March 26, 2011

Tullia Calabi Zevi

Tullia Calabi Zevi (1919-2011):  “My Political Autobiography” Tullia Zevi left us on January 22, 2011. We remember her with respect and affection. On the occasion of this Giorno della Memoria…