Robert Wistrich
A Lethal Obsession
Random House

In this major work of historical synthesis, the author, Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,  offers abundant evidence that genocidal anti-Semitism, and apologetics and indifference about is not only a matter of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust: it remains a key element of contemporary affairs. Lethal Obsession presents a profound interpretation of anti-Semitism both before and after 1945. Wistrich - who writes with the interpretive grasp of a historian of the first rank as well as with the passion and urgency that is so essential in the face of the genocidal threats made against Israel and the Jews in recent year - offers remarkable details of the persistence and permutation of this hallucinatory set of ideas within Europe as well as in the Middle East, North Africa and Iran.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Zakhor. Storia ebraica e memoria ebraica.
Giuntina

In questo libro fondamentale lo storico  risponde a una domanda decisiva: che cosa gli ebrei hanno scelto di ricordare del loro passato e in che modo lo hanno, di volta in volta, preservato, trasmesso e rivissuto. In quattro capitoli che vanno dalle origini bibliche fino ai giorni nostri, Yerushalmi fornisce un quadro che è insieme brillante ricostruzione di fatti e riflessione generale su cosa significa fare e scrivere storia.