Recommended Reading
A listing of all my reference material that formed the foundation of Angel of Alta Langa would be quite long and include not only books but also scholarly journal articles, blogs, and websites such as The United States Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, and The Jewish Virtual Library. The list below contains a selection of valuable reference books I recommend to readers seeking more information on the history of Italy, particularly Piemonte, from the beginning of the Fascist era through the end of World War II.
Banfield, Edward C. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. New York: The Free Press, 1958.
Basani, Giorgio. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1962. Translated by William Weaver as The Garden of the Finzi- Continis (New York: Harcourt Inc., 1977).
Caracciolo, Nicola. Gli ebrei e l’Italia durante la guerra, 1940-45. Rome: Bonacci Editore S.R.L., 1986. Translated by Florette Rechnitz Koffler and Richard Koffler as Uncertain Refuge. (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
De Felice, Renzo. 1961-1993. Storia degli ebrea italiani sotto il fascismo. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1951-1993. Translated by Robert L. Miller as The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History. (New York, NY: Enigma Books, 2001).
Dusio, Andrea. Rina and Demetrio’s Century: Passion, Hard Work and Success of the Renowned Couple, Owners of the Albergo Restaurant Bellavista in Bossolasco and Their Famous Langa Cuisine. Translated by Christopher Winner. Rome: Banda Larga, 2010.
Dutto, Alessandro. Storie Piemontesi. Boves, Italy: Arabafenice, 2014. Fenoglio, Beppe. I ventire giorni della città Alba. Turin: Giulio Einaudi
Editore, 1952. Translated by John Shepley as The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba. (South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2002).
Fenoglio, Beppe. Il partigiano Johnny. Published in English as Johnny the Partisan.
Fenoglio, Beppe. La Malora. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1954. Trans- lated by John Shepley as The Ruin. (Marlboro Press, 1992).
Fenoglio, Beppe. Una Questione Privata. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1963. Translated by Howard Curtis as A Private Affair. (London: Modern Voices, 2006).
Fox, Elaine Saphier, ed. Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holo- caust. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Hoffman, Suzanne. Labor of Love: Wine Family Women of Piemonte. Colo- rado: Under Discovered Publishing, 2016.
Holland, James. Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
Levi, Primo. Si questo è un uomo. Turin: De Silva, 1947. Translated by Stuart Wolf as If This Is a Man, (Orion Press, 1959).
Mo, Tiziana. Le parole della memoria. Turin: Omega Edizione, 2005.
Translated into Italian from Piemontese by Corrado Quadro.
Moorehead, Caroline. A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism. New York, New York: Harper Perennial, 2020.
Pavese, Cesare. 1950. La luna e I falò. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore. Trans- lated by R. W. Flint as The Moon and the Bonfires. New York: New York Review of Books, 2002).
Petrini, Carlo, ed. Atlante delle vigne di Langa. Bra, Italy: Slow Food Editore, 2000, 2008.
Revelli, Nuto. La strada del davai. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1966 and 2004. Translated by John Penuel as Mussolini’s Death March: Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013).
Revelli, Nuto. L’anello forte: La Donna: Storie di vita contadini. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2007.
Rosso, Maurizio and Chris Meier. The Mystique of Barolo. Turin: Omega Edizione, 2002.
Roth, Chaya H. The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2008.
Sarfatti, Michele. Ebrei nell’Italia fascita. 2006. Translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi as The Jews of Mussolini’s Italy: From Equality to Persecution. (Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press.)
Slaughter, Jane. Women and the Italian Resistance: 1943-1945. Denver, CO: Arden Press, 1997.
Sullivan, Mark. Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Seattle, WA: Lake Union Publishing, 2017.
Stille, Alexander. Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism. New York: Picador, 1991.
Zargani, Aldo. Per violino solo. Società editrice il Mulino, 1995. Translated by Marina Harss and published as For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy (Paul Dry Books, Philadelphia, PA, 2002).
Zimmerman, Joshua D., ed. Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2005.