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Prisoners of Hope : The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974
Prisoners of Hope The Silver Age of the Italian Jews 19241974 Author:H. Stuart Hughes The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of... more » antisemitic persecution.« less