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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…

Paper Lives

Paper Lives- Survival and Deportation in San Donato Val Comino, 1940-1943 Anna Pizzuti’s website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War…

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…

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 and scrupulously impartial study…

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 story of the birth…

A Nation Collapses

Elena Agarossi, A Nation Collapses, Cambridge University Press, 2000 “I will compare the objectives set by the parties involved in Italy’s surrender with the results achieved, and consider in a…