Upcoming Events
Food Policy and History in the Italian South
This event will be held off-campus, in the Tamalpais Room of the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley.
Talk at Stanford University
Details TBA.
Annual Bocciardi Undergraduate Conference (Inaugural event)
Giotto Book Conference
Presented by the Department of Art History.
Italy’s Holocaust: the Genocide of the Jews of Italy
Contrary to commonly held belief, nearly half the 8,000 Jews arrested in Italy and deported in 1943-45, were arrested by Italians. Mussolini had paved the way for this with anti-Jewish persecution and propaganda that began with the so-called “racial laws” of 1938. Levis Sullam’s new book (The Italian Executioners, Princeton, 2018) demonstrates that Italian bureaucrats, ideologues and members of the fascist party, were responsible for genocide – together with the German occupiers of Italy during WW2 – to a much higher degree than has been acknowledged to date.