Rome, 16 October 1943 : history, memory, literature

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Josi, Mara, author

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"Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a ...

"Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from a local railway station, Stazione Tiburtina. From December 1944, literary texts of this event have facilitated a national and international understanding and recollection of 16 October 1943. They have been bearers of historical awareness, channels of memory; not only outcomes of remembrance but also active ingredients in the process of forging cultural memory. In this pioneering interdisciplinary study drawing from literary and cultural memory studies, Mara Josi shows how '16 ottobre 1943' by Giacomo Debenedetti, 'La Storia' by Elsa Morante, 'La parola ebreo' by Rosetta Loy, and 'Portico d'Ottavia 13' by Anna Foa have operated on the personal and the collective level: in other words, on the reader and on society."--Back cover.

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