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“A Nostalgia for Totality”: Cesare Cases Between Antisemitism, the Jewish Question and Israel

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Reminiscing about the post-war atmosphere, Cesare Cases—who was born in Milan in 1920 and died in Florence in 2005—wrote: “For those who felt uneasy and did not easily recover from the trauma [of anti-Jewish persecutions], the alternative was between left-wing parties and Zionism”. This sort of autobiographical, ideal and partly ideological triangle—trauma, Zionism and left-wing parties—profoundly influenced Cases’ life.

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    Forte, Luigi. 1997. E Cases abbracciò il fascista Junger, Tuttolibri, a supplement to La Stampa, July 24.

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    Forte, Luigi. 2000. La coscienza di Cesare, Tuttolibri, a supplement to La Stampa, March 18.

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    Ivi. Deir Yassin is a village near Jerusalem where Jewish soldiers killed over one hundred Arabs in April 1948.

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    Cases, Cesare. 1982. Ma gli ebrei non hanno un Papa. La Repubblica. July 17.

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    Cases, Cesare. 1982. Il loro razzismo e la nostra paura. Il Manifesto, October 10.

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    2001. Appello N.I.M.N. (= “Non in mio nome”). Il Manifesto. May 11 and 23. http://leonardodaga.insyde.it/Shevek/AppelloNIMN.htm. Accessed 9 January 2018.

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Levis Sullam, S. (2021). “A Nostalgia for Totality”: Cesare Cases Between Antisemitism, the Jewish Question and Israel. In: Tarquini, A. (eds) The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56662-3_14

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