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italian culture, Vol. xxxii No. 2, September 2014, 138–60 Book Reviews Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature. By Enrico Cesaretti. Pp. vii + 272. Oxford: Peter Lang. 2013. Aside from a few, notable examples, such as Gian-Paolo Biasin’s I sapori della modernità (1991), gastro-criticism is a fairly new multi-disciplinary approach to literature that incorpo- rates literary studies, anthropology, sociology, semiotics and history to explore cultural production. Enrico Cesaretti’s gastro-critical approach to Italian Modernism brings together articles previously published; but here they are revised in order to read early twentieth century Italian writers and texts from a new perspective. The four chapters explore both well-known and nearly forgotten texts by authors such as F. T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Paola Masino, Massimo Bontempelli, and Luigi Pirandello through the common thematic of food, eating, depravation and hunger. Cesaretti notes that “virtually every major twentieth-century Western intellectual from Freud onward, has refl ected on the multiple cultural roles and implications of food and eating” (3). Modernism brought renewed focus on the body, so the trope of food, or lack thereof, becomes an important semiotic concern for writers of the period. Cesaretti’s selection of authors and texts stems from a chronological closeness more so than a great stylistic affi nity, and he is conscious of trying to unite his authors under the umbrella of the term Modernism, which, as he notes, has been problematic in Italian literary critical circles. For Cesaretti, these fi ve authors all emphasize food, hunger, and related tropes in their works because of historical reality (food shortages in Italy during the interwar years among others) and because of Modernism’s emphasis on the body and its functions. -
Israel's Response to Terrorism
Effective solidarity among states has become a prerequisite for ultimately succeeding in the war of the West against jihadist terrorism. A cohesive military strategy is needed for the West, the Arab states that are threatened, and Israel. It stands to reason that, just as all three face similar threats, the JERUSALEM models developed in Israel for dealing with terror merit attention in Europe and beyond. BERLIN Amb. Dore Gold President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM FROM LESSONS LESSONS FROM ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN (ED.) AMB. DORE GOLD | BRIG.-GEN. (RES.) YOSSI KUPERWASSER AMB. ALAN BAKER | PROF. ASA KASHER | AMB. FREDDY EYTAN Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs DR. IRWIN MANSDORF | DAN DIKER | JENNIFER ROSKIES Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs LESSONS FROM ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM Fiamma Nirenstein (ed.) Amb. Dore Gold | Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser Amb. Alan Baker | Prof. Asa Kasher | Amb. Freddy Eytan Dr. Irwin Mansdorf | Dan Diker | Jennifer Roskies Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Read this book online: http://jcpa.org/lessons-israels-response-terrorism/ Cover photo: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, AP Photo/Michael Kappeler © 2017 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 13 Tel Hai St., Jerusalem, 92107 Israel Email: [email protected] Tel: 972-2-561-9281 | Fax: 972-2-561-9112 Jerusalem Center Websites: www.jcpa.org (English) | www.jcpa.org.il (Hebrew) www.jcpa-lecape.org (French) | www.jer-zentrum.org (German) www.dailyalert.org The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization. ISBN: 978-965-218-136-7 Contents Executive Summary 5 Is the Terror against Europe Different from the Terror against Israel? Amb. -
“Critica Sociale” E La Rivoluzione Russa (1917-1926)
SPES – Rivista della Società di Politica, Educazione e Storia, Suppl. di “Ricerche Pedagogiche” ISSN 2533-1663 (online) Anno X, n. 10, Luglio – Dicembre 2019, pp. 105-132 “Critica Sociale” e la rivoluzione russa (1917-1926) Giovanna Savant La rivoluzione di febbraio è accolta con favore dall’ala moderata del PSI, che ha in “Critica Sociale” il principale organo di espressione. La caduta dello zar sembra aprire una fase democratica il cui scopo è di trasformare l’autocrazia russa in un moderno regime rappresentativo. La rivista turatiana segue prima con simpatia e poi con preoccupazione crescente le vicende russe, fino a quando l’avvento al pote- re dei bolscevichi cancella ogni speranza di uno sviluppo democratico. Da questo momento, il giudizio sulla Russia dividerà le due anime del PSI in modo irrimedia- bile: mentre i massimalisti guarderanno alla dittatura bolscevica come a un model- lo, per i moderati costituirà un’aberrazione dei canoni del materialismo storico. The Revolution of February is welcomed by the moderate wing of the Italian Social- ist Party, which has in “Critica Sociale” the main media outlet. The Czar's fall seems to open a democratic phase that aims to get Russian autocracy into a modern representative system. The review of Turati, at first, is pleased about the Russian events, but later it shows a rising concern until the Bolsheviks come to power de- stroying all hope for democratic development. Since this moment, the judgment on Russia will separate irreparably the two souls of the Italian Socialist Party: the maximalists see the Bolshevik dictatorship as a model, while the moderates consider it an aberration of the principles of the historical materialism. -
Capitolo Primo La Formazione Di Bettino Craxi
CAPITOLO PRIMO LA FORMAZIONE DI BETTINO CRAXI 1. LA FAMIGLIA Bettino, all’anagrafe Benedetto Craxi nasce a Milano, alle 5 di mattina, il 24 febbraio 1934, presso la clinica ostetrica Macedonio Melloni; primo di tre figli del padre Vittorio Craxi, avvocato siciliano trasferitosi nel capoluogo lombardo e di Maria Ferrari, originaria di Sant’Angelo Lodigiano. 1 L’avvocato Vittorio è una persona preparata nell’ambito professionale ed ispirato a forti ideali antifascisti. Vittorio Craxi è emigrato da San Fratello in provincia di Messina a causa delle sue convinzioni socialiste. Trasferitosi nella città settentrionale, lascia nella sua terra una lunga tradizione genealogica, cui anche Bettino Craxi farà riferimento. La madre, Maria Ferrari, figlia di fittavoli del paese lodigiano è una persona sensibile, altruista, ma parimenti ferma, autorevole e determinata nei principi.2 Compiuti sei anni, Bettino Craxi è iscritto al collegio arcivescovile “De Amicis” di Cantù presso Como. Il biografo Giancarlo Galli narra di un episodio in cui Bettino Craxi è designato come capo classe, in qualità di lettore, per augurare il benvenuto all’arcivescovo di Milano, cardinal Ildefonso Schuster, in visita pastorale. 3 La presenza come allievo al De Amicis è certificata da un documento custodito presso la Fondazione Craxi. Gli ex alunni di quella scuola, il 31 ottobre 1975 elaborano uno statuto valido come apertura di cooperativa. Il resoconto sarà a lui indirizzato ed ufficialmente consegnato il 10 ottobre 1986, allor quando ritornerà all’istituto in veste di Presidente del Consiglio; in quell’occasione ricorderà la sua esperienza durante gli anni scolastici e commemorerà l’educatore laico e socialista a cui la scuola è dedicata. -
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What Is Left of the (Italian) Left? Roberto Pedretti (Milan) oday the left finds itself in the landscape, similar to a tidal wave that has Tdangerous but extraordinary submerged almost all the political forces condition of being called to reinvent and of the 20th century, in particular the left, rethink its role, to open, and experiment both in its multifarious forms, from the with, new spaces of possibilities. As Slavoj most reformist to the most radical one.5 Zizek writes in the long introduction The outcome of the last general elections to a selection of Lenin‘s writings, this in Italy (4 March 2018) produced a means working through past historical political landscape that confirms a events – in particular failures – to re/ process that – apart from a few exceptions produce the coordinates of the left’s – seems to be global and systemic. project of emancipation.1 This should recover from the past and adapt to he crisis of the Italian and European 6 the present the historical purpose of Tleft is partly the outcome of the the left with the aim of breaking with intellectual and political difficulty of forms of subaltern thinking that have confronting the historical changes and hindered the redefinition of the political social transformations of the last decades. space in the context of the global It has produced a subordinate position economic and social transformations. towards the hegemony of the neoliberal consensus, which has prevented the left n his last book “La lunga eclissi. from evaluating the social and cultural IPassato e presente del dramma della effects this consensus has on its traditional sinistra”,2 Achille Occhetto - the last constituency and the emerging new PCI3 secretary and first secretary of social subjects. -
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I c/66-14 AN ESSAY ON REVISIONISM IN THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY Giorgio Galli Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies International Communism Project The following essay explores the evolution of Italian Communist re- visionism. In general when we speak of "revisionism" in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) we usually refer to the question of whether the conquest of power is possible and of what strategy the Party puts forward in order to achieve it: the classical questions, in short, which were at the center of the first great revisionist debate in the Second International. Extensive comparisons have therefore been made between Italian "revisionism" and its classical antecedents. But first a brief review of the PCI's attitude toward the Italian Con- stitution may be illuminating. At a particularly signi icant moment in its recent history, the Eighth Congress of December 1956, the PCI approved the "Elements for a Policy Declaration" which regards the Italian Constitution that went into effect in January 1948, as an "important victory on the Italian road to Socialism," and illustrates one fundamental aspect of it in the follow- ing manner: As far as private property is concerned, it is guaranteed by law, 'with the aim of safeguarding its social function and making it accessible to all,' and it is precisely for this reason that the Constitution lays down limits for it and even provides for expro- priation, with compensation, for 'reasons of general interest.' It is not, therefore, unreasonable to state that the Republican Constitution . sets up some of the conditions which may, when they are put into effect . -
Italian Lessons
Italian Lessons AMID TWINKLING FINGERS and Guy Fawkes masks, few were pining for central committees. Occupy’s emergence was welcomed. The movement galvanized radicals, bringing the language of class and economic justice into view. Yet an unwarranted arrogance underlined the protests. Occupy, in part a media event that mobilized relatively few, was quick to assert its novelty and earth-shattering significance. "Our model worked" was the refrain, cutting short debate with representatives from the gloomy socialist left. A disconnect from the lineages of past movements — movements that energized more, accomplished more and were only half as self-congratulatory — was a point of pride. The posture was all the more tragic, because Occupy’s potential went beyond the minuscule core that laid its foundation. It rested in the millions who saw in it their discontent with austerity regimes, wage cuts, unemployment, and financial abuse. OWS, now drifting towards irrelevance, lacked the experience and political strategy to rally these people to action. Of course, no diverse movement emerges out of an apolitical era and latches immediately onto a unified and comprehensive critique. Politicization is a process. In this context, the translation of Lucio Magri’s The Tailor of Ulm, a history of the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party, once the most powerful and influential one in the West, is perfectly timed. With the Communist movement long dead and Italian politics vacillating between the dry and technocratic and the bombastic and corrupt, that’s an odd pronouncement. But the history of the PCI is the history of a vibrant and deeply political organization that in a few short decades embedded itself within the Italian working class, attempting to chart a new course between Stalinism and social democracy. -
Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting Kenneth Lasson University of Baltimore School of Law, [email protected]
University of Baltimore Law ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law All Faculty Scholarship Faculty Scholarship 2009 Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting Kenneth Lasson University of Baltimore School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/all_fac Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, First Amendment Commons, International Law Commons, and the Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Commons Recommended Citation Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting, 1 The ourJ nal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA) 139 (2009) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. jsa1-2_cv_jsa1-2_cv 3/1/2010 3:41 PM Page 2 Volume 1 Issue #2 Volume JOURNAL for the STUDY of ANTISEMITISM JOURNAL for the STUDY of ANTISEMITISM of the STUDY for JOURNAL Volume 1 Issue #2 2009 2009 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1564792 28003_jsa_1-2 Sheet No. 3 Side A 03/01/2010 12:09:36 \\server05\productn\J\JSA\1-2\front102.txt unknown Seq: 5 26-FEB-10 9:19 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 Number 2 Preface It Never Sleeps: A Note from the Editors ......................... 89 Antisemitic Incidents around the World: July-Dec. 2009, A Partial List .................................... 93 Articles Defeat, Rage, and Jew Hatred .............. Richard L. Rubenstein 95 Betraying Truth: Ethics Abuse in Middle East Reporting .......................... -
Annual Report 2019–2020 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Action and Impact in Israel and around the World Annual Report 2019–2020 Report on Jerusalem Center Projects, Social Media Campaigns, Analyses, Reports, and Conferences – in Israel and Internationally Amb. Dore Gold, President 1 The Jerusalem Center’s Path-breaking Impact on U.S. and Israel’s Foreign Policy Israel’s Critical Security Requirements for Defensible Borders, the Jerusalem Center’s flagship project over the years, has borne demonstrable fruit. Amb. Dore Gold was invited to the East Room of the White House on January 28 when President Trump unveiled the Vision for Peace to Prosperity plan. At a press conference held at the Jerusalem Center two weeks later, Ambassador David M. Friedman expressed thanks to Amb. Gold on behalf of the United States for his time and expertise in the plan’s preparation. While much work remains ahead, and whether the issue is defensible borders for Israel or legislation to outlaw payments to Palestinian terrorists, the Jerusalem Center takes pride in its measurable impact on foreign policy in Israel, the U.S. and Europe. The Trump Plan: A Changing Diplomatic Paradigm for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Jerusalem Center held a special briefing on Feb. 9, 2020, on the U.S. peace plan with U.S. Amb. David Friedman, Amb. Dore Gold, and Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence. The Jerusalem Post reported Amb. Dore Gold with on January 31, 2020: U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David M. For the past two years, Gold said, he was fielding “dual invitations” from the U.S. -
“Una Rivoluzione Mancata: Il Riformismo Di Filippo Turati”
“Una rivoluzione mancata: il riformismo di Filippo Turati” Lezione di storia, 12 marzo 2011 (Piazza S. Giovanni, Roma) di Spencer Di Scala Antonio Gramsci, nell’analizzare il Risorgimento, utilizo` la frase “rivoluzione mancata” per criticare Giuseppe Garibaldi perche` lui aveva dato I’appena conquistato Regno delle Due Sicilie al Regno di Sardegna nel compimento dell’unita` italiana. Secondo Gramsci, c’erano delle indicazioni che era possibile fare una rivoluzione sociale nel Sud che Garibaldi aveva soffocato con questo atto. Secondo me, facendo questa analisi Gramsci aveva torto, anche se la sua frase ha avuto fortuna fra gli storici della sinistra italiana. Io credo che l’evidenza citata da Gramsci non regge e ho anche I miei dubbi riguardo il concetto. Si puo`, quindi, domandare per quale motive ho utilizzato l’idea della rivoluzione mancata nel titolo di questa lezione. La ragione e` che nel caso di Filippo Turati, padre del riformismo italiano, il confronto tra quello che I riformisti italiani volevano fare, nella luce dello svilippo della societa` e della politica italiana, e` molto piu` concreto che nel caso che ho citato. Nel caso del riformismo turatiano si possono individuare idee concrete e soluzioni per problemi che ancora affliggono l’Italia e, se I riformisti avessero vinto le loro battaglie, avremo oggi un’Italia molto piu` civile e moderna. Inoltre, si e` persa la memoria storica di Turati e dei riformisti della sua epoca sicche` al giorno d’oggi, quando si parla tanto di riformismo, dopo 85 anni, gli italiani 1 sono costretti a riscoprire una robusta tradizione italiana invece di poter costruire delle politiche adeguate per confrontare il mondo moderno sulle fondamenta gettate da Turati e dai riformisti della fine dell’ottocento e l’inizio del novecento. -
Renzo Zaffanella Su Pietro Nenni
IL PROFILO UMANO E POLITICO DI NENNI NEL RICORDO DI RENZO ZAFFANELLA* Intervistato da Agostino Melega** Questa volta sono io a chiamare al telefono Zaffanella:<<Renzo, mi potresti rilasciare un’intervista su Pietro Nenni, per l’inserto de L’Eco del popolo su Cronaca?>> <<Volentieri! >>, mi risponde subito pronto, ed il giorno dopo lo raggiungo nella sua abitazione. Trovo l’ex sindaco di Cremona molto disponibile e sereno nel recuperare il filo della memoria sulla figura di Pietro Nenni, del quale il 1° di gennaio di quest’anno è ricorso il trentennale della scomparsa. Il mio interlocutore ha preparato per l’occasione una serie di appunti e di date precise, che hanno contrassegnato, con la vita di Nenni, le vicende politiche del nostro Paese e non solo, e subito confida: <<In una sola cosa non sono stato d’accordo con Nenni: nell’insistere nel rapporto d’alleanza fra il Psiup – si chiamava così il Partito socialista nel 1946 -, ossia fra il Partito socialista italiano di unità proletaria e i comunisti. Nenni non fu certo il solo a portare avanti quel dissanguamento. Fra il 1945 e il 1946 erano infatti molti, fra i socialisti, quelli che spingevano per arrivare a fondere addirittura insieme i due partiti socialista e comunista. E così si portò avanti un’alleanza, quella del Fronte Democratico Popolare, che da una parte impoverì a dismisura la nostra rappresentanza parlamentare e politica, dall’altra ebbe l’effetto di vederci cacciar fuori dall’Internazionale socialista. Nenni, romagnolo generoso, era un passionale, e non si accorse del gioco tattico e del freddo cinismo di Togliatti che tagliava erba nel campo del nostro elettorato, e lo faceva con una determinazione scientifica>>. -
European Public Opinion and Migration: Achieving Common Progressive Narratives
EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION AND MIGRATION: ACHIEVING COMMON PROGRESSIVE NARRATIVES Tamás BOROS Marco FUNK Hedwig GIUSTO Oliver GRUBER Sarah KYAMBI Hervé LE BRAS Lisa PELLING Timo RINKE Thilo SCHOLLE EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION AND MIGRATION: ACHIEVING COMMON PROGRESSIVE NARRATIVES ACHIEVING EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION AND MIGRATION: Luigi TROIANI EUROPEAN PUBLIC OPINION AND MIGRATION: ACHIEVING COMMON PROGRESSIVE NARRATIVES Published by: FEPS – Foundation for European Progressive Studies Rue Montoyer 40 - 1000 Brussels, Belgium T: +32 2 234 69 00 Email: [email protected] Website: www.feps-europe.eu Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest Regional Project „Flight, Migration, Integration in Europe” Fővám tér 2-3 - H-1056 Budapest, Hungary Email: [email protected] Website: www.fes.de/en/displacement-migration-integration/ Friedrich Ebert Stiftung EU Office Brussels Rue du Taciturne 38 - 1000 Brussels, Belgium Email: [email protected] Website: www.fes-europe.eu Fondazione Pietro Nenni Via Caroncini 19 - 00197 Rome, Italy T: +39 06 80 77 486 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fondazionenenni.it Fondation Jean Jaurès 12 cité Malesherbes - 75 009 Paris, France T: +33 1 40 23 24 00 Website: https://jean-jaures.org/ Copyright © 2019 by FEPS, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Fondazione Pietro Nenni, Fondation Jean Jaurès Edited by: Marco Funk, Hedwig Giusto, Timo Rinke, Olaf Bruns English language editor: Nicole Robinson This study was produced with the financial support of the European Parliament Cover picture : Shutterstock Book layout: Triptyque.be This study does not represent the collective views of FEPS, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Fondazione Pietro Nenni or Fondation Jean Jaurès, but only the opinion of the respective author. The respon- sibility of FEPS, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Fondazione Pietro Nenni and Fondation Jean Jaurès is limited to approving its publication as worthy of consideration for the global progressive movement.