The Racist Laws – Before and After the Shoah

Models, Practices and Heritage
IHRA ITALIAN CHAIRMANSHIP 2018, MINISTERO DELL’ISTRUZIONE, DELL’UNIVERSITÀ E DELLA RICERCA – DIREZIONE GENERALE PER LO STUDENTE, L’INTEGRAZIONE E LA PARTECIPAZIONE, FONDAZIONE PER LE SCIENZE RELIGIOSE GIOVANNI XXIII (EDS.)
Fondazione per le scienze religiose, Bologna, 2019
pp: 136
ISBN: 9788896118085

Eighty years after the Racist Laws of 1938, the need to know about the Shoah, to analyse its causes and to keep the memory of its consequences constantly alive requires today, more than ever before, immediate action. This volume collects some of the contributions to the international meeting The Racist Laws. Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage held in May 2018 in Rome and organized by the Italian delegation to IHRA, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose in Bologna and by the Milanese Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea, with the collaboration of MIUR. The key idea that runs through the texts not only describes the dramatic political and legal phases in the Jews’ discrimination, exclusion and elimination but also follows the traces of these events in the following decades in order to remind the reader that education, research and remembrance are essential, incisive tools for reinforcing the prevention of any form of discrimination and racism.