Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. Item #909 8vo. 210 x 140 mm. , [8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches]. [xii], 188 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, small chip to the top edge of the lower cover.
First edition. Hughes, the noted historian of 20th century Europe tackles the literary genre with his study of Italian writer who focused on the Jewish community over a fifty year period. Of Hughes's work Arnaldo Momigliano writes, "A subtle study of a group of contemporary Italian writers who combine in various measures ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of anti-semitic persecution. . . a work of precise scholarship and a performance of high humanity." Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzberg, Carol Levi and Giorgio Bassani are some of the authors Hughes examines in this work.
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