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Trieste
In Italy, an elderly mother awaits a reunion with the son stolen from her by the Nazis—“A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book” (The Jewish Daily Forward). Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project. Tedeschi reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences, in a narrative that deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, and to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi occupation in northern Italy that “explores the 20th century’s darkest chapter in an original way . . . an exceptional reading experience” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
Evil in the Modern World
This interesting volume focuses on a set of phenomena which increasingly alarm the political world and public opinion: from the more obvious ones like torture, disease, human trafficking, abuse, genocide, displacement, to more subtle forms found in sports, technology and law. It looks at how and why these phenomena are universally condemned, and could be considered to threaten the very foundations of modern democracy; yet continue to be tolerated. The volume therefore goes beyond what Hannah Arendt has called the "banality of evil" and discusses the presence of condemned and heinous practices in society as fluid and chaotic but as non-trivial; capable of great transmutations through various epochs. Practices and actions considered as "evil" manifest in situations where individuals or groups hold power or seize power, and the contributions in this volume explore the close relation between power and evil. The volume draws upon sociology, psychology, cultural studies, political science, as well as philosophy, theology, anthropology, and neurology of the individual and of the group to provide a comprehensive understanding of the multiple facets of evil in the contemporary world.
The Order Has Been Carried Out
On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.
The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader
Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: - Essays on the play's critical and performance history - A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play - A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often b...
American Jewish Year Book 1988
The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current.
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Qual è il significato delle Fosse Ardeatine? Quale memoria ha lasciato la strage nazista compiuta a Roma il 24 marzo 1944, come rappresaglia dell’attentato partigiano di via Rasella, in cui il giorno prima erano morti 33 tedeschi? Questo libro, uscito nel 1999 e insignito del Premio Viareggio, è divenuto ormai una pietra miliare della storiografia contemporanea e un punto di riferimento per i tantissimi lettori che continuano ad accostarsi ad esso, spesso in occasione dei ricorrenti quanto accesi dibattiti sulla memoria del fascismo e dell’antifascismo. Protagonista assoluta del libro è la voce diretta dei portatori della memoria: duecento intervistati, di cinque generazioni, e di div...
Red Card to Racism
‘It’s not banter. It’s racist.’Is football doing enough to give racism the boot? The global Black Lives Matter campaign has given greater exposure to the extent of the structural and systemic racism that exists in all strata of our society. It has provided renewed impetus to the urgent need to challenge and eradicate racism in all its forms and wherever it is found. Sadly, sport has not been immune from this, especially so in the case of football. For too long, there were attempts to hide and mitigate racist attitudes and actions within the game, but thanks to the growing profile and visibility of black and minority ethnic (BAME) players both past and present - Viv Anderson, Cyrille ...
Diaspora
«Il Novecento che racconto comincia dal 1880 circa e finisce con gli anni Settanta del Novecento. Si apre con l'emigrazione in America e si chiude con la perdita d'importanza dell'Europa e l'affermarsi sempre maggiore del mondo ebraico americano e di Israele. Due significativi momenti di cambiamento che riguardano gli ebrei tutti.» Un libro importante per metodo e contenuti, un appassionante excursus che parte dall'ultimo ventennio del XIX secolo e accompagna l'esperienza ebraica fino ai tempi più recenti. Anna Foa dimostra lucidamente quanto la Shoah, che pure tutto travolge, sia qualcosa di ‘alieno' all'esperienza ebraica, a quella sua ricchezza e complessità di cui il '900 è testimone non meno che dell'orrore. Elena Loewenthal, "Tuttolibri" Uno stile avvincente. Anna Foa racconta la storia della nuova identità ebraica che si forma nel confronto con la modernità, un'identità ricca di sfaccettature e di aspetti imprevedibili che ancora attende di essere compresa e compiuta. Lucetta Scaraffia, "Corriere della Sera"
