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| Ruggero Taradel Lecturer, Italian Laurea, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1992 Padelford C-249 |
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Publications • The Holy See and the Racial Laws in Italy and Europe (La Santa Sede e le leggi razziali in Italia e in Europa). Race, Jurisprudence, Experiences. Seventy Years after the Racial Laws. To be published in June 2009. •The
Blood Libel between History and Legend. Reflections on the Toaff Case
(L’accusa del sangue tra storia e leggenda. Riflessioni sul caso
Toaff). Published in March 2007 on the website Morasha.
Lectures, Conferences • Religion and Anti-Semitism. An Historian’s Journey. University of Washington, Seattle Campus, November 14, 2008. •
The Holy See and the Racial Laws in Italy and Europe: 1933-1943. Essay
presented at the International Conference Race, Jurisprudence, Experiences.
Seventy Years after the Racial Laws at the University of Catania (Italy).
October 29-31, 2008. • A Methodological and Historical Analysis and Evaluation of Ariel Toaff’s research on Ritual Murder. Paper presented at the seminar: Writing Today on Jewish History. Scholars and Researchers Discuss with Ariel Toaff. Center for Italian and European Studies (CIES). Boston University, Padova, April 6, 2008. •
The Forgotten Revolt. Sobibor’s Extermination Camp in the History
of the Shoah (La rivolta dimenticata. Il campo di sterminio di Sobibor
nella storia della Shoah) Rome, Università di Tor Vergata.
April 20, 2006 Interviews, Conversations • Fosse Ardeatine. Remembrance and Historical Significance (Le fosse Ardeatine. Ricordo e significato storico). An interview with Vatican journalist Menichetti broadcasted by the Vatican Radio (Vatican City) on March 25, 2008. •
The Web of Hatred. An interview with the Italian State TV (RAI3)
with Alessandro Rossi on Racism and Anti-semitism on the World Wide Web
(May 3rd, 2007). • La novità nel gesto, non nelle parole “Liberazione” March 24, 2000. An analysis and evaluation of Pope John Paul II visit to Jerusalem and Yad Vashem in 2000. Translations • Consultant and supervisor for the English version of Leonardo Distaso’s book The Paadox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling, Kluwer Academic Publications (London-Amsterdam), 2004. Ongoing Projects a)
Books, essays • A Beautiful Desolation. Naples at War 1940-1946. A book on the city of Naples during the Second World War. • Darwin and The Jesuits. In collaboration with Daniele Cozzoli. A study of the cultural policy carried out by the Societas Iesu and Jesuits scholars concerning Darwin and Darwinism in the XIX and the XX century. • Il Fondo dell’ Abisso. L’Aktion Reinhard e la Soluzione Finale. (The Bottom of the Abyss. Aktion Reinhard and the Final Solution). In collaboration with Barbara Raggi. A comprehensive study on the destruction of Jewry in Poland and its post-war implications. • Dystopia and Contemporary Culture. In collaboration with Marco Innamorati and Alessandro Rossi. A study of the impact of Negative Utopias in the XX and XXI centuries in Literature, Politics and Culture. • The Problem of the Existence of God and the Trinitarian Dogma in Paul Tillich’s Theology. An essay on the most important aspects and implications of Paul Tillich’s work on the philosophical interpretation on fundamental Christian dogmas. To be published by the Journal of Philosophy and Theology Dialegesthai (ISSN 1128-5478) in 2009. b) Translations • Translation into Italian of Thomas Toivi Blatt’s book From the Ashes of Sobibor. A History of Survival (Northwestern University Press, 1997) into Italian. • Translation into English of Alfonso di Nola’s book Lo specchio e l’olio. Le superstizioni degli Italiani (Bari, Laterza, 1992) c) Documentaries Ruggero Taradel has been collaborating as history consultant with legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles (Director of Salesman, Gimme Shelter, Lalee’s Kin: the Legacy of Cotton and many other documentaries) for the realization of the documentary The Jew on Trial on the ritual murder trial in Kiev in 1913. Ruggero Taradel’s research has been widely reviewed the Italian national press (Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto etc. and by the officious Journal of the Holy See La Civiltà Cattolica) and described by the foremost Church historian Father Giacomo Martina S. J. as an “acute analysis” and a “well informed and substantially objective” research on the Anti-Semitic tradition of the Catholic Church. Rav Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Rome welcomed the “extreme precision and accuracy” of his research as a “painstakingly accurate critical work”. The Amicable Segregation (La segregazione amichevole) and The Blood Libel (L’accusa del sangue) are now both considered as some of the most authoritative studies on the subject, they have been both adopted as textbooks by several Italian universities (e.g. Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Università di Reggio Emilia etc.) and they are often quoted and listed in the essential bibliography in academic publications in Italy, France, Great Britain and in the United States by historians and scholars such as David Kertzer, Giovanni Miccoli, Adriano Prosperi, Michele Sarfatti, Favret-Saada etc. |
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