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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674707281
• ISBN13: 9780674707283
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"