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Monachina, Judith

 
9798885450058: Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians who lived through Fascism and the Holocaust
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ISBN 13 : 9798885450058
Editeur : White River Press, 2024

Synopsis

It takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny.

Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust.

Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order during the chaotic post World War I period. But in its rise, it did not signal what it eventually would aim to destroy, including the lives and livelihoods of Jews. Early on, Italian Fascism was not explicitly anti-Semitic. But 11 years after Mussolini cemented his dictatorship, he began to dismantle the professional and personal lives of Jews in Italy. Then, during the German occupation, in 1943, these Italians experienced the threat of deportation and genocide.

Judith Monachina listened to individual stories, often in the homes of those she interviewed. She also met historians and others dedicated to meticulously documenting and communicating this history. Her journey through this project took years to trace, with one Fulbright period to conduct intensive research and live in the place of memory. Now, the individual accounts in Days of Memory bear witness to how people coped with the collapse of civil society, carried on with their lives as well as they could, and made life-or-death decisions. These stories show us their resilience.



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À propos de l'auteur

Judith Monachina was a community journalist when she began interviewing people about the Italian Holocaust, in 2000. She was awarded a Fulbright research fellowship (journalism) to study in Milan, in 2007, at the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation. While doing research for the book, she began to study oral history practice and was a fellow at the Columbia University Oral History Summer Institute. In 2016, she became founding director of the Housatonic Heritage Oral History Center at Berkshire Community College.

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Éditeur
White River Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798885450058
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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