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Il Duce and the Jews

JL;DR SUMMARY "Il Duce and the Jews" highlights David Modigliani's podcast "Pack One Bag," exploring his Italian Jewish family's experiences under Fascist rule and their gripping escape to the United States. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Tags

HolocaustFascismHistorical NarrativeItalian JewsMussoliniDavid ModiglianiAntisemitic LawsJewish EscapePius Xi

Places mentioned

Rome, Italy
"and the instructions Nazi captors gave four years later to the Jews they were extracting from Romes ghetto and dispatching to their deaths."
Binghamton, Massachusetts, United States
"I remember the reaction of a freshman at Binghamton some years ago to the experience of reading Kertzers The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara."
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