La Nostra Vita con Ezio e Ricordi di guerra

• Main Author: Aghib Levi D'Ancona, Flora (auth)
• Other Authors: Levi D'Ancona Modena, Luisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Italian
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
• Series: Biblioteca di storia 38
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Italian Jewish intellectual; Fascism; romance philology; Spain 1930s; exile women literature
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D'Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled after the racial laws. Completed with a historiographical introduction and an appendix of unpublished letters, the volume traces Ezio's path as a Jewish intellectual in Fascist Italy, his role as a cultural mediator of Spanish contemporary literature to Italy, the trauma of the racial laws, and the challenges of the American exile. Expression of a women's exile literature, the pages reflect the authors experience as a mother writing for her children left in Italy and of an intellectual Italian Jewish woman dealing with the challenges of exile and memory.