, Mondadori) non passò inosservato, in particolare in Germania, dove la sua pubblicazione determinò uno choc. When he came out in 1997, the famous book of the historic U.S. based Daniel Goldhagen (Title: Hitler's Willing Executioners, Knopf) did not go unnoticed, particularly in Germany, where its publication led to a shock. The young and hitherto unknown Harvard professor argued, papers in hand, that it was not only the SS or Nazi party members responsible for the Holocaust, but also ordinary Germans, of all backgrounds, who brutalized and murdered Jews, ideological conviction or out of free choice. Years later, in 2005, the Italian stroico Amedeo Guerrazzi Osti has reopened the question of investigating in turn the responsibility of those Italians who, for reasons of profit or of anti-Semitism (or both), contributed to the capture of the Jews ( Cain in Rome . The Roman accomplices of the Holocaust, ed. Cooper, pp.. 221, Euros 15). While there were many who opposed the Romans with courage to the racial laws helping the unfortunate citizens of religion (or "race") Jewish, many denounced them and helped send them to the camps or the Ardeatine. The author uses unpublished documents of lawsuits against collaborators after the war and for the first time, after years of "forgetfulness shared", it shows the names of the accomplices of the Holocaust, ordinary people, fascists and the institution, resistant, and the Jews themselves, as the beautiful and fierce Celeste Di Porto, "the Black Panther," which he co-deport many, including some relatives. Along with Osti Guerrazzi are many authors and books that seek various ways and with intent to shed light on the darkest pages of history in the name of a Jewish identity is denied or scorned, or who simply feel the need to keep alive a memory that requires and demands listening. Instar Books, for example, public (pagg. 344, euro 16) che in forma di romanzo allude alla difficoltà e al disagio di vivere da ebrei nella Toronto degli anni Trenta, dove non mancano le spiagge ei campi da golf vietati agli ebrei in una società canadese d'inizio secolo, popolata da wops e kikes («guappi» italiani e «giudei»), ma anche da giovani che sfilano per le strade esibendo svastiche. The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke , by Steven Hayward (pp. 344, Euro 16) in the form of the novel alludes to the difficulty and discomfort of living as Jews in the thirties of Toronto, where there are beaches and golf courses are off limits to Jews in a Canadian company of the century, peopled by wops and kikes ("thugs" and Italian "Jews"), but also young people who parade through the streets showing swastikas. Are of great memories of Georgina Arian Levi (Book title: A whole century , The Giunta, pp.. 134, Euros 12). Between 2004 and 2005 the author - then novantacinquenne - has picked up his laptop on the memories of a life spent between militancy and political passion; long life that has spanned two world wars, the Nazi-Fascist persecution, exile, the return and the social and political transformations of an Italy torn and ambiguous. So deep that interest back to Judaism and its ancient and recent history, the dynamics that intersect between civil society and the Jewish minority, where the concern arises that the anti-Jewish prejudice, die hard, can reappear at any time and in every place. It does not matter if Gad Lerner in his interesting book published in 2005, too You're a bastard (Basic Books, pp.. 220, Euro 10) is declared against the worship of the origins, the abuse of identity and the rhetoric of lost roots pushing separation and hence the conflict. If it is true that the excessive worship of belonging, whether religious, political or football, can become a ghetto or a weapon of manipulation (of narcissism but also irritating or exaggerated victimhood and self-defeating), the opposite is also true, namely that its through the confirmation of identity, whatever it is, relations with others, with the other than itself, become a field of exchange and dialogue in a society increasingly anemic and boring approved. Even in the expression of views and opinions diverse.Questo article was published Thursday, November 3, 2005 in Il Giornale (The memory is not just a single day of Marina Gersony).
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