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…
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…
“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”. …
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…
Jeremy Salt, Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Land, Berkeley University of California Press, 2008 Written for those who want to know more about the…
Meir Litvak, Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2009 Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and…
Clifford Chanin and Aili McConnon, Blooming Through the Ashes: An International Anthology of Violence and the Human Spirit, Rutgers University Press, 2008 The twentieth century is frequently characterized in terms…
Götz Nordbruch, Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945, Routledge, 2009 The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and…
Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric Dursteler, Julius Kirshner, Francesca Trivellato, From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond, Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 2009 Published by three historians who trained with Professor Anthony…
David Ruderman, Preachers of the Italian Ghetto, University of California Press, 1992 By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a…