is professor of history at Hofstra University and a former research fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Oxford University. A specialist on the Italian anti-fascist Resistance and Italian Jews, he is the author, editor or translator of a dozen books on Italian and Italian American studies. His first book, Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile has been translated into Italian, Russian and Romanian. He has edited several volumes of collected essays, including The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy and The Legacy of Primo Levi and Frank Sinatra: History, Identity and Italian-American Culture. He is also the author of Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome, 1943-1944 and an anthology, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance in Italy. His new English edition of Carlo Levi’s Fear of Freedom is published by Columbia University Press and his biography of the Italian anti-fascist writer Ignazio Silone will be published in 2009 published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.