The Holocaust in Italian culture, 1944-2010 / Robert S.C. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Robert S. C. (Robert Samuel Clive), 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Nationalism and collective memory--Italy.

Nationalism and collective memory.

Italy--Civilization--1945-.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; 1. The Shape of Italy's Holocaust; 2. Villa Torlonia; 3. The Field; Part II; 4. New Knowledge; 5. Primo Levi; 6. Rome; 7. Shared Knowledge; 8. Grey Zones and Good Italians; 9. Transnational Lines; 10. After Such Knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804782630

0804782636

OCLC:

793193177