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Robert Gordon - The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 - 9780804763455 - V9780804763455
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The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010

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Description for The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 Hardback. A rich and wide-ranging exploration of Italy's difficult engagement with the legacy of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is 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 vast array of stories, images, and debate through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804763455
SKU
V9780804763455
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Robert Gordon
Robert S. C. Gordon 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 Levi's Ordinary Virtues (2001) and 'Outrageous Fortune': Luck and the Holocaust (2010).

Reviews for The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010
"[A]n outstanding guide to the last 70 years, full of insight, subtle distinctions, and always readable."—David Cesarani, Modern Italy "Gordon's novel contribution to the field of Italian Holocaust studies is a needed overview of the dynamics underscoring the national struggle between the historical position of the witnesses (epitomized in Gordon's work by Levi) and the pull of those ahistorical perceptions ... Read more

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