Fascist Italy faced a conflict with Nazi Germany regarding the fate of Jews, especially those of the Italian communities in southeastern France and in Tunisia. Carpi (history, Tel Aviv Univ.) has plumbed archival sources in Rome and Paris to detail this complicated but fascinating aspect of the Holocaust. He shows that most Italian diplomats and military personnel were strongly opposed to the policies of Nazi Germany toward the Jews, an enlightened attitude that resulted from a complicated mixture of economic, political, and cultural factors and especially the absence in Italy of the strong anti-Semitism found in Germany. This important study should be in academic libraries and in public libraries with strong Holocaust collections.
Daniel Carpi
Prof. Daniel Carpi (1926–2005) was an historian with an expertise in Italian Jewry. Prof. Carpi was Head of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and acted as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He also taught at Yeshiva University, Sorbonne, and St Anthony’s College at Oxford. He established the Department of Jewish Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University of the Vatican. Prof. Carpi initiated the collecting and editing of the volumes of correspondence written by …
