Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled after the racial laws. Completed with a historiographical introduction and an appendix of unpublished letters, the volume traces Ezio’s path as a Jewish intellectual in Fascist Italy, his role as a cultural mediator of Spanish contemporary literature to Italy, the trauma of the racial laws, and the challenges of the American exile. Expression of a women’s exile literature, the pages reflect the authors experience as a mother writing for her children left in Italy and of an intellectual Italian Jewish woman dealing with the challenges of exile and memory.
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Book Title
La Nostra Vita con Ezio e Ricordi di guerra
Editors
Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena
Authors
Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
286
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-273-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-272-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-273-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-274-4
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986