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Issue 5 | Reviews – Conflicts of Memory. The Reception of Holocaust Films and TV Programmes in …

With this book published as volume 8 of the Italian Modernities series, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon, the reader is presented with a systematic survey of how Italian cinema and television coped with issue of the Holocaust, since the …

Issue 5 | Reviews – Broadening Jewish History. Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews

The title of the latest book by Todd Endelman – Broadening Jewish History. Towards a Social History of Ordinary Jews – is as ambitious as it is misleading. The volume is in fact a collection of essays previously published in other venues, and – a…

Issue 5 | Reviews – Scritti politici e filosofici di un ebreo scettico nella Venezia del Seicento

During the year 1608, the well educated English traveler Thomas Coryat reached Venice. His long journey through Europe had been immortalized in one of the most renowned works in English travel literature, Coryat Crudities, where a vivid description of …

Issue 5 | Reviews – Gustav Landauer: anarchico ebreo tedesco 1870-1919

Gianfranco Ragona, Assistant Professor of History of Political Ideas at the University of Turin (Italy), has written a well-composed study of the intellectual formation process of Gustav Landauer (1870-1919). A man of an ‘insatiable intellectual …