Chosen People
WHO CAME FIRST? Jews, Etruscans, Romans...
Why are the Etruscans so supremely "mysterious"? In the popular imagination, that is always the first word that comes to mind...
By way of Giorgio Bassani's 1957 novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, we search for ancient clues in the Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri.
Who are these Etruscans anyway—real or imagined?
What secrets do they share with the author's own more recent dead —Holocaust victims from Jewish Ferrara?
GUGLIELMO MARCONI: Science, Fascism, Antisemitism and What Else?
History has given a free pass to Guglielmo Marconi, who was both a scientific genius and a Fascist ideologue.
There are two stories to tell—first in Italy and then in America.
THE SORDEVOLO PASSION: Jewish Infamy Takes Center Stage in the Foothills of the Alps
Every five years, the inhabitants of the tiny Piedmontese town of Sordevolo stage a compelling recreation of the last days of Christ— as long imagined by Catholic believers.
There they are...before our very eyes....the cursed Killers of the Savior!
What on earth is happening here?!
I can promise you an answer, but not a simple one.