University of Pisa

Department Member, Derpartment of History

Adjunct Professor (docente a contratto)

About

Guri Schwarz (Milan 1975) obtained a Phd summa cum laude in Historical Disciplines at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2002. He has been post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bologna, fellow of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation (Turin), and research fellow at the Department of History of the University of Pisa. He is member of the Interdepartmental Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Pisa as well as coordinator fo the scientific board of the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (Milan).

His research interests concentrate on the history of the Jews in contemporary Italy, the politics of memory  in post WW II Europe, the transition from fascism to democracy. He is completing a volume on war dead, mourning and memory in post-WWII Italy.

He is author of the following books:

1.  Ritrovare se stessi. Gli ebrei nell’Italia postfascista, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004;
2. Dalla Guerra alla Pace. Retoriche e Pratiche della smobilitazione nell’Italia del Novecento (with M. Mondini), Cierre-Istrevi, Verona 2007.
3. Tu mi devi seppellir. Riti funebri e culto nazionale alle origini della Repubblica, UTET, Torino 2010.

He edited the following volumes:

1. (with I. Pavan) Gli ebrei in Italia tra persecuzione fascista e reintegrazione postbellica, La Giuntina, Firenze 2001;

2. (with B. Armani) Ebrei borghesi. Identità famigliare, solidarietà e affari nell’età dell’emancipazione, «Quaderni Storici», n. 114, 2003.

3. critical edition of the diaries of the jewish partisan Emanuele Artom, Diari di un partigiano ebreo (gennaio 1940- febbraio 1944), Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008.

4. (with L. Brazzo), The Jews in Europe after the Shoah. Studies and Research Perspectives, "Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History", n. 1 (2010).