The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.

H. Stuart Hughes is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego.

Read More by H. Stuart Hughes:

• Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987
• The United States and Italy, 3rd enlarged edition