Tu passerai per il camino. Vita e morte a Mauthausen.

Milano, Mondadori 2005, cm.15x22,5, pp.168, legatura editoria cartonata, sopraccoperta. Coll.Frecce. Gli italiani sono antisemiti? Le leggende che vogliono la popolazione ebraica unita in una potente lobby sono ancora diffuse nell'Italia del Terzo millennio? È vero che nel Bel Paese sopravvive, alimentato da vecchi e nuovi pregiudizi, un sentimento di ostilità nei confronti degli ebrei? Giornalista, già ricercatore per il Censis, Daniele Scalise ci offre con questo libro un'inchiesta sul pregiudizio antiebraico nel nostro Paese. Un percorso attraverso la nostra cultura e la nostra storia fatto di interviste, testimonianze, racconti, riflessioni che illuminano uno dei lati oscuri della nostra coscienza nazionale.

Introduction by Robert Pinsky. Rizzoli International 2000, cm.26x30, pp.168 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale copertina figurata. For more than a century, Russian Jews were restricted to residence in the western provinces of Russia, the so-called Pale of Settlement. In this fascinating volume, 125 duotone photographs document the carved tombstones of this region, specifically present-day Ukraine and Moldova. The stones are poignant memorials to the lost world of the shtetl and practically all that remain of a major Jewish art tradition. They are also unique genealogical records for Americans descended from Russian Jewry. The photographs, made by the artist and photographer David Goberman from the 1930s through the 1960s, are in many cases the sole documentation of tombstones that have been effaced or destroyed.

Translated fron the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author. Chatto & Windus 2001, cm.16x22, pp.198, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata. Here is a book in a magical category of one, a truly outstanding, resonant and original work, in a bold and daring new form, which breaks the mould of storytelling. It tells an intimate, everyday story of grief, love, attachment and loss through the voices of a fabulous range of characters - in some ways it recalls Under Milk Wood. Nadia Danon is dead, of cancer. Her widower, Albert, an accountant (who bears an odd resemblance to Amos), is trying to put his life back together. Her son has gone off to lose or find himself in Tibet. The son's girlfriend, a filmmaker, is back in Israel, making friendly, daughterly overtures to Albert - his response is less platonic. Meanwhile she has another lover and a rather repellent film producer also lusts after her. There are other wonderful characters. Theirs are the voices and the stories. It is beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, sexy, poetic, full of echoes and allusions, and yet with an astonishing immediacy and contemporaneity., and pure joy to read.