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Issue 3 | Discussions – Storia della Shoah in Italia. Vicende, memorie, rappresentazioni

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 …

Issue 3 | Discussions – Storia della Shoah in Italia. Vicende, memorie, rappresentazioni

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…

Issue 4 | Discussions – MetaMaus. A Look inside a Modern Classic

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…

Issue 4 | Discussions – MetaMaus. A Look inside a Modern Classic

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…

Issue 5 | Discussions – The Holocaust in Italian Culture 1944-2010

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…

Issue 7 | Discussions – Primo Levi. The Matter of a Life

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…

Issue 6 | Discussions – The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

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…

Issue 6 | Discussions – The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

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…

Issue 8 | Discussions – Jews and the Military. A History

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…

Issue 8 | Discussions – Jews and the Military. A History

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…