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Fascism

Essay on Survival and Historical Truth

Jasha M. Levi

EDITORS' NOTE: Mr. Jasha M. Levi, a Yugoslav Jewish antifascist in the 1930s and a fighter against dictatorships and genocides for all his life, fled the Nazis and his native...

What Is in a (Street) Name? Too Much History. And Italian Americans in Chicago Make the Headlines.

Stanislao Pugliese*

A recent petition by Chicago academics to rename Balbo Drive in Chicago has generated a counter-petition and ignited a small controversy in the Italian American community.

Ground Zero Mosque: Ramadan Mobarak!

Jerry Krase

"I wrote this a few weeks ago but the intolerance is growing... The most venomous blabber so far has been the Newt's equating of Moslems to NAZIs and 9/11 to the Shoah. Given his...

Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco

Laura E. Ruberto

Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"

I-Mussolini: a Political or an Educational Tool?

BENEDETTA GRASSO & GABRIELLE PATI

The most downloaded application in Italy right now, I-Mussolini, a collection of his speeches, causes debates and controversies all over the world.

Remembrance Day 2010. Introducing This Year's Topics

January 27, 2010. Natalia Indrimi, Director of the Primo Levi Center in New York, introduces us the two topics on which Remembrance Day will focus this year: the Jewish Community...

"Bitter Spring": Understanding Ignazio Silone

Simona Zecchi

An interview with Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History at Hofstra College and author of “Bitter Spring: A life of Ignazio Silone.” The controversial Italian...

Passion and Politics

George De Stefano

Marco Bellocchio’s new film reconstructs a piece of Italian history

An Italian-American Antidote to Fascism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Cristogianni Borsella

Followers of Mussolini still exist in both Italy and the U.S., and some of them are Italian Americans. I am left to ask: Which path will Italian-American youth follow in the years...

Brava Gente? The Resurgence of the Shopworn Myth of Italian Benevolence During Fascism

Alessandro Cassin

The complex and often contradictory story of what happened to the Jewish population in Italy during World War II is little known to the American public. Elizabeth Bettina’s "It...

Blessed Fascism

George De Stefano

Right-wing extremists Forza Nuova march, and a priest gives the benediction

Out of the archives: Vatican doubts over the Duce

Judith Harris

New access to archival documents of the Vatican shed evealing light on the relatiuonships between th Catholic Church and Fascism.

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