Title:Memory, History and the Classical Tradition
Author(s):WHITLING, FrederickDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Memory' is often confused and mistaken for myth; this is in turn connected with the widespread use of mistaking collective mythology and common myth for the idea of a 'collective memory'. This essay discusses memory and ...
Title:Moses and Faruq: The Jews and the study of history in interwar Egypt 1920s-1940s
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is often argued that Egyptian Jews did not participate much in the cultural and political life of monarchical Egypt. Even though this is partly true in comparison to other Jews in the Middle East such as the Iraqis, one ...
Title:Moving Histories. The Jews and Modernity in Alexandria 1881-1919
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This essay will investigate the history of Alexandria from 1881 to 1919, proposing a re-definition of modernity vis-à-vis the city’s Jews. In the first part I will introduce a case of blood libel that occurred in 1881, the ...
Title:A Multifaceted Image of Jewish Women at Belgian Universities during the Interwar Period
Author(s):FALEK, PascaleDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper studies the experiences of university Jewish women in interwar Belgium by reconstructing their image; multifaceted and changing across time and space, it varied according to the observers’ perspective and their ...
Title:Muted Violence: Italian War Crimes in Occupied Greece
Author(s):SANTARELLI, LidiaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article considers the myth of Italians as 'good people' that has dominated postwar historiography as well as the public and institutional discourse, and analyses the connection between the judiciary paradigm and the ...
Title:NATO: The management of diversity
Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The image of a harmonious Atlantic alliance occasionally riven by acute crises was the actors’ own perception, and recurring fear, throughout its Cold War history. A long-term historical assessment, however, emphasizes a ...