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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…

News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

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Books January 29, 2010

In corpore

        Loredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross, In corpore: bodies in post-unification Italy, Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007 In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and…

Interviews January 28, 2010

A New Journal: Quest

The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan Launches Online History Journal: Quest Alessandro Cassin interviews Michele Sarfatti, historian and director of CDEC The recent launch of the online magazine…

Books January 26, 2010

Ideology in Stone

How Fascism Re-Monumentalized Rome Alessandro Cassin Regimes fall, architecture remains. It enriches the study of history as an objective and time resistant benchmark. Throughout the centuries totalitarian regimes have erected…

Interviews January 26, 2010

From Trieste to New York

  Book Review: From Trieste to New York. Annie Cohen-Solal’s Leo & His Circle Alessandro Cassin Chances are even those outside the contemporary art world are familiar with Leo Castelli’s…

Interviews January 26, 2010

Memory Buried

Memory Buried: In Search of Mussolini’s Camps   Interview by Alessandro Cassin Carlo Spartaco Capogreco is a professor at the Università della Calabria and president of Fondazione Ferramonti, which is…

Interviews January 19, 2010

The Language of Testimony

The Language of Testimony:  a Conversation with Manuela Consonni by Alessandro Cassin Manuela Consonni is head of the Department of Italian Studies and the Romance and Latin American Studies section…