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Academia, Books 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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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 highly selective memories of…

Books January 29, 2010

Fascism’s European Empire

Davide Rodogno, Fascism’s European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 2006 A controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World…

News January 29, 2010

The Jews and the Black Death

        Anna Foa – Translator: Andrea Grover, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death, University of California Press, 2000 Anna Foa’s richly innovative history of Jewish…

Books January 29, 2010

The Missing Italian Nuremberg

Michele Battini, The Missing Italian Nuremberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 “Battini’s excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military command in Italy for…

Books January 29, 2010

Early Modern Jewry

        David Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press, 2010 Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish…

Books January 29, 2010

Resistance and Shoah

Manuela Consonni, Resistance and Shoah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 Manuela Consonni’s new book focuses on the different uses of memory of the Resistance and of the Shoah, which…