Contribution by: Robert C. GordonThe first full-scale biography of Primo Levi appeared in France in 1996: Myriam Anissimov’s Primo Levi: La Tragédie d’un optimiste (Paris: Lattès) was broadly criticized for a gamut of failings…
Contribution by: Anna Baldini“What would talk of the Holocaust be like in America if a skeptical rationalist like Primo Levi, rather than a religious mystic like Wiesel, had been its principal interpreter?”
The first time I bumped into thi…
Contribution by: Ranen Omer-ShermanAt the end of the day, does MetaMaus constitute more than a mere vanity project, a self-congratulatory attempt to wheedle more manna out of the artist’s painful family history? To answer that, one must obviously…
Contribution by: Federico Damonte
MetaMaus: a contemporary midrash
Why MetaMaus?
Pay attention to the look and feel of any book by Art Spiegelman: a lover of books as objects, a typographic enthusiast who used to run his own press in his apartment t…
Contribution by: Franklin H. AdlerPublication of the two-volume Storia della Shoah in Italia. Vicende, memorie, rappresentazioni signifies an important turning point in our understanding of the persecution of Italian Jews under Fascism, the policy of d…
Contribution by: Guri SchwarzThis two volume collection of essays edited by Marcello Flores, Simon Levis Sullam, Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci and Enzo Traverso is dedicated to the reconstruction of the origins, development, consequences and memory of the …
Contribution by: Marco MondiniIn his latest book Derek Penslar tackles boldly the history of the presence and participation of Jews in military institutions. He offers the first comprehensive, comparative outlook on a complex topic, covering a very wid…
Contribution by: Marcella SimoniIn his Jews and the Military. A History, Derek Penslar painted a multi-layered picture of the historical relationship between the Jews and the State in the early modern and modern times through the prism of Jewish engage…
Contribution by: Sergio Della PergolaThe question of whether economic history should be written by a historian who knows about economics, or by an economist who knows about history remains open and probably will never be adjudicated. In sweeping genera…
Contribution by: Cristiana FacchiniThe Return of the Grand Narrative
In 1899, Henry Dagan published a short collection of interviews under the title Enquête sur l’antisemitisme.1 All the most prominent French and Italian int…
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