Record Nr.

UNINA9910779175903321

Autore

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

Titolo

The Holocaust in Italian culture, 1944-2010 [[electronic resource] /] / Robert S.C. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8263-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/180945

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Italy

Nationalism and collective memory - Italy

Italy Civilization 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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