{"product_id":"october-16-1943-eight-jews-hardcover","title":"October 16, 1943\/Eight Jews - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiacomo DeBenedetti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti's \u003ci\u003eOctober 16, 1943\u003c\/i\u003e has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one thousand Roman Jews from the oldest Jewish community in Europe for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Completed a year after the event, Debenedetti's intimate details and vivid glimpses into the lives of the victims are especially poignant because Debenedetti himself was there to witness the event, which forced him and his entire family into hiding. \u003ci\u003eEight Jews\u003c\/i\u003e, the companion piece to October 16, 1943, was written in response to testimony about the Ardeatine Cave Massacres of March 24, 1944. In this essay, Debenedetti offers insights into that grisly horror and into assumptions about racial equality. Both of these stunning works are appearing together, along with Alberto Moravia's preface to Debenedetti's \u003ci\u003eOctober 16, 1943\u003c\/i\u003e, for the first time in an American translation. \u003ci\u003eOctober 16, 1943\/Eight Jews\u003c\/i\u003e gives American readers a first glimpse into the extraordinary mind of the man who was Italy's foremost critic of twentieth-century literature. In addition to probing the deeper, haunting questions of the Holocaust, Debenedetti briefly describes the seizure of the Roman Jewish community's library of early manuscripts and incunables, the most valuable Jewish library in all of Italy. Following the roundup, this library was never seen again. Award-winning translator Estelle Gilson offers an additional essay on the history of the library and modern-day attempts to locate it. \u003ci\u003eOctober 16, 1943\/Eight Jews\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving work that will continue to challenge readers long after they have closed its pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiacamo Debenedetti (1901-1967) was a professor at the University of Messina and the University of Rome, an editor at an Italian publishing house, Italy's foremost critic of twentieth-century literature, and a friend of leading leftist intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Neruda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.86 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454370726066,"sku":"9780268037130","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c396bee2b3632ef3111bd55b4a5b355f_e0d0ee7c-42fe-48ea-9595-cac3a16a9254.webp?v=1778849360","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/october-16-1943-eight-jews-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}