Dr. Eric Goldman
Italy and Its Jews on Film
Mondays, 6:15 – 9:00 PM
March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15
(This course skips March 18)
OFFERED IN-PERSON
Some of Italy’s finest filmmakers, like Benigni, De Sica, Rosi and Visconti, have put forward narratives of Italian Jews, focusing mainly on the Shoah and the years before and after it. More often than not, they advanced the notion of Italian innocence, of “good” Italians like Pope Pius XII. But this narrative is slowly changing as today’s moviemakers reassess Italy’s wartime conduct and delve deeper into some of Italian Jewry’s more tragic stories, like the 1858 Mortara Case, now at the center of a movie by Marco Bellocchio. Films will be shown during the course with pauses for discussion.
Portions of the films will be shown during the course with pauses for discussion.
Hans A Vogelstein Course in Jewish Studies