Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Foreign Words -- Introduction -- I. Introduction -- II. Some Taxonomies of Holocaust Literature -- III. A Taxonomy of Italian Holocaust Narrative -- Setting the Stage: A Brief History of the Italian Jews -- I. The Origins of the Italian Jewish Community -- II. 1492 -- III. The Age of the Ghetto -- IV. Emancipation, Risorgimento, Citizenship -- V. Fascism and the Holocaust -- VI. The Italian Jewish Community from WWII to the Present -- Italian Holocaust Testimony -- 1. Primo Levi's Holocaust Lexicon -- 2. Lest None Forget: Bruno Piazza -- 3. Giuliana Tedeschi: Wife, Mother, Survivor -- 4. Liana Millu's Struggle for a Women's Holocaust Literature -- Re-imagining the Holocaust -- 1. First on the Scene: Giacomo Debenedetti -- 2. Elsa Morante's Questionable -- 3. "The only real Jew": Giorgio Bassani -- 4. Paolo Maurensig and the "Third Iteration" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- D -- E -- F G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- J -- M -- O -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- Z -- W.