Michele Sarfatti is director of the Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea in Milan and the author of many books and articles about Jews in fascist Italy. John Tedeschi is a Reformation historian, and Anne C. Tedeschi is a book conservator. Their many cotranslated works include the award-winning The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg.

This rich and compassionate study of the plight of Italy's Jews combines vivid narrative with scrupulous historical accuracy. - Booklist ""Michele Sarfatti has challenged and effectively demolished the myth that Italian fascism was simply aping Hitler's Germany in its creation of the racial laws against the Jews. He describes the independent genesis of Mussolini's racial policy and its distinct character."" - Alexander Stille, author of The Sack of Rome and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism ""Prodigiously documented and definitive."" - Publishers Weekly