1st Edition

Three Faces of Antifascism Narrative of Resistance in Post-War Italian Political Culture

By Manuela Consonni Copyright 2027
608 Pages
by Routledge

Three Faces of Antifascism: Narrative of Resistance in Post-War Italian Political Culture tells the story of intertwining of Italian history, the anti-fascist paradigm and the memory of the Resistance and the Shoah. It is in this context that the post-war Jewish world took on a leading role in the victory over Nazism and in the construction of democracy in Italy.  The book explores three main... Read more

Part 1: The Aftermath 1943-1948  1. Towards a Political-Cultural Paradigm of Antifascism  2. Finding Words for the Unspeakable  3. If this is a man, if this is a woman  Part 2: We, the Divided 1948–1967  4. The Opposition to Antifascism  5. Fascism, Antifascism, and Anti-Communism: The Debate in the Journals  6. Resistance, Deportation, Extermination  7. Opening the floodgates of memory  Part 3: Coming to Terms with the Past 1970-1989  8. Compromise and Revolt  9. The Moral Imperative to Bear Witness  10. The Female Gaze in the Labyrinth  11. The Didactics and Dialectics of Historical Memory  12. Moby Dick, the White Whale and Revisionism  13. The Black Hole of Auschwitz  Epilogue

Biography

Manuela Consonni is a Pela and Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies, at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.