European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992

Alessandra Tarquini is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy. Her recent publications include: Storia della cultura fascista (Il mulino 2016), Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992 (edited with Andrea Guiso, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and La sinistra Italiana e gli ebrei: socialismo, sionismo e antisemitismo (Il mulino, 2019).

• 1. Antisemitism and the French left between culture and politics: a long-term perspective- Michel Dreyfus.- Part I: The Theorists of Socialism.- 2. Religion et Politique: Saint-Simonians, Jews and the Jewish Paradigm- Alberto Scigliano.- 3.Cesare Lombroso, the "blast of antisemitism" and "socialist neo-Christianity"- Xavier Tabet.- 4.Anarchists and the Jews: Bernard Lazare’s analysis of antisemitism- Stefania Mazzone.- 5. Wilhelm Marr and the Left in Germany: the birth of modern antisemitism in Imperial Germany- Didier Musiedlak.- 6. Sorel and the Jewish Question- Luca Basile.- 7. Corrupter of the Working Class. Italian Revolutionary Syndicalism and the antisemitic Critics of Democracy- Enrico Serventi Longhi.- 8. Antonio Gramsci and the Jewish Question- Andrea Pinazzi.- Part II: The Representation of antisemitism.- 9. Adorno’s Interpretation of antisemitism and the Dialectics of Civilization- Stefano Petrucciani.- 10. Left-wing intellectuals and the representation of the Shoah in Italy: from the Second World War to the 1970s, between anti-fascism and the Frankfurt School- Alessandra Tarquini.- 11. Avanti! and the memory of the Shoah (1961-1967)- Bianca Dematteis.- 12. Umberto Terracini: his commitment to the memory of the Shoah, his relationship with Israel and his fight against antisemitism- Marta Nicolo.- 13. “A Nostalgia for Totality”: Cesare Cases between antisemitism, the Jewish Question, and Israel- Simon Levis Sullam.- Part III: The Israel Question.- 14.The Italian Communist Party and the “Israel Question” during the First Years of the Cold War: Toward a Historical Semantics of Communist Anti-Zionism Andrea Guiso.- 15. The Italian Communists and Socialists’ Reading of the Six-Day War and Its Consequences- Claudio Brillanti.- 16. On the Continued Relevance of an Austrian left-wing intellectual: Jean Améry’s critique of leftist Anti-Zionism- Lars Fischer.- 17. Jewish left-wing intellectuals in Postwar Germany: the case of Micha Brumlik and the Israeli Palestinian conflict between antisemitism and Anti-Zionism- Anna Corsten.- 18. The French radical Left ant the Jews: the influence of the Arab-Israeli conflict on Anti-Zionism within the French radical Left between 1967 and the early 1980s- Thomas Maineult.- 19. The Italian radical Left and the Arab-Israeli Question (1969-1977)- Gregorio Sorgonà.- 20. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen by the Spanish left from the Gulf War until today- Manuelle Peloille.