Renzo De Felice's Storia of Anti-Jewish Persecution: Context, Chronological Dimension, and Sources

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The Omens In November 1961, the Einaudi publishing house published Renzo De Felice's Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo.1 The Wiener Library in London and both the Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Memorial Authority in Jerusalem and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research of New York City had just published (respectively, at the beginning and the end of 1960) two bibliographies concerning the persecution of Jews in Europe, one authored by Ilse R. Wolff and the other by Philip Friedman and Jacob Robinson.2 According to their works (in particular, according to the latter, more extensive one),…

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