The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010

by Gordon, Robert S. C.

• ISBN13: 9780804763455
• ISBN10: 0804763453
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-11
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands of Italians--Jews and others--were deported to concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian culture produced a rich array of stories, images, and debate through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment of twentieth-century history. His book probes aspects of Italian national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing the interactions between national and international images of the Holocaust.

Author Biography

Robert S. C. Cordon is Professor of Modern Italian Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He is the author of Primo Levis Ordinary Virtues (2001) and "Outrageous Fortune": Luck and the Holocaust [2010].

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Shape of Italy's Holocaust	p. 3
Villa Torlonia	p. 14
The Field	p. 25
New Knowledge	p. 41
Primo Levi	p. 64
Rome	p. 86
Shared Knowledge	p. 109
Grey Zones and Good Italians	p. 139
Transnational Lines	p. 157
After Such Knowledge	p. 188
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 269
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