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Ci raccontò con orgoglio la sua storia favolosa: la sua epopea, vicina nel tempo ma già am- piamente trasfigurata in canzone di gesta, affinata e polita da innumerevoli ripetizioni.

Dedication

The Wolf/Hallac and the Viterbi/Smargon families’ friendship goes way back, approximately fifty years. Jack first met Andy during his service in the US Air Force from 1959 to 1963 when Andy requested a grant for his research. He received it.…

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Valentina Pisanty in Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today

By Janet Ward at University of Oklahoma for The Journal of Holocaust Research

The six contributions to Volume 35, Number 2 of The Journal of Holocaust Research (2021), ‘Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today,’ were first presented at events organized by Janet Ward (University of Oklahoma) and Gavriel Rosenfeld (Fairfield University), including a seminar at a conference of the German Studies Association (October 2019, in Portland, Oregon), and a roundtable at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting (January 2020, in New York City). By inviting a group of German and American scholars to collaborate and explore the complicated continuities between the fascist past and today, amid the rise of populism, racism, antisemitism, and white ethno-nationalism in the United States, Germany, and beyond, we deepened our collective understanding of the connections and challenges for our teaching, scholarship, and public outreach. Mindful of the need for a more effective scholar-activist approach, this JHR special issue offers the first grouping of research emanating from our discussions; and our other, equally urgent focus, ‘Fascism in America, Past and Present,’ is currently a work-in-progress (coedited by Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward).

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About Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in our book Exile and Creativity

As appearing in https://mariocastelnuovotedesco.com/

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is among the men and women featured in Exile and Creativity, a volume of essays inspired by a series of programs held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro Primo Levi. The essays examine the lives of intellectuals, artists, and scientists who were forced into or chose exile during the Fascist era.  Among those highlighted in the book are the Nobel-prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi, the sculptor Costantino Nivola, the writer and cultural figure Amelia Rosselli, and the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini. 

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Valentina Pisanty in EuropeNow

Alexis Herr The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (CPL Editions 2020) by Valentina Pisanty addresses the dramatic rise in racism and intolerance among countries where memory of the Holocaust is pursued with the greatest vigor and,…

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Guardians of Memory?

 CPL Editions book launch: THE GUARDIANS OF MEMORY AND THE RETURN OF THE XENOPHOBIC RIGHT  by Valentina Pisanty with a preface by Michael Rothberg Presentation on February 16 at 2:00 pm (EST) Register for the event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0KlXe3e5SnSqIdaNUhVrFw Panelists: Valentina Pisanty (University…

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Giorno della Memoria 2021

For immediate release Giorno della Memoria 2021: Looking back at Twenty Years of Activity January 27, 2021 will mark twenty years since the first commemoration of Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Italy. In New York, each year, the…

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The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right By Valentina Pisanty Translated by Alaistar McEwan with a preface by Michael Rothberg Valentina Pisanty’s The Guardians of Memory opens with a paradox and a question. The paradox derives…

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Fleeing for Safety: From Mantua to Switzerland Edited by Alessandro Vivanti Translated by Will Schutt The book combines two accounts, one picking up where the other leaves off, like the passing of a torch. The son, Corrado Vivanti, opens with…

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