Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974,

by H. Stuart Hughes

Book Overview

The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674707273
• ISBN13: 9780674707276
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"