Volume 39, Number 18 · November 5, 1992
Holocaust Heroes
By István Deák
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
by Alexander Stille
Summit Books, 365 pp., $25.00
The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust
edited by Ivo Herzer
The Catholic University of America Press, 305 pp., $19.95 (paper)
All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943
by Jonathan Steinberg
Routledge, 320 pp., $27.50
Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective
by Samuel Abrahamsen
Holocaust Library, 207 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust
edited by Richard C. Lukas
The University Press of Kentucky, 201 pp., $25.00
'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust
edited by Antony Polonsky
Routledge, 242 pp., $25.00
The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer
by Józef Garlinski
Blackwell, 231 pp., $21.95
The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II
by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall
Prometheus Books/Ahriman-Verlag, 444 pp., $27.95
Jews have been in Italy since Roman times. At the end of the fifteenth century, they were expelled from southern Italy, then a Spanish possession, at the same time as the Jews from Portugal and Spain. Consequently, many southern Italians were hardly aware of Italian Jews even in the Fascist period. Jews were never expelled from Rome and other papal possessions in central Italy, in part because the Church needed them as living reminders of the sufferings of Christ. Yet life was not easy for Jews in Rome, at least not after the sixteenth century, when a ghetto was set up there. They were then forced to attend church to hear weekly sermons exhorting them to convert, and to be exposed to the taunts of the populace.
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