Prof. Nancy Harrowitz is the Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. After receiving her PhD from Yale University, she began teaching Holocaust and Italian studies at BU, and later developed a new program in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights.<\/p>\n
Her scholarly work focuses on questions of changing Jewish identities between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as fascism and the Holocaust in Italy. Investigating questions of cultural difference and connections between multiple forms of prejudice and shame legacies, her books include\u00a0Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural\u00a0Difference: Matilde Serao and Cesare Lombroso<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor<\/i>, as well as edited volumes on antisemitism and cultural heroes and on Otto Weininger. She has published widely on Italian Jewish authors including Giorgio Bassani.\u00a0With Prof. Linda Heywood, she co-organized a lecture program entitled\u00a0Conversations on Race<\/i>, in which speakers were invited to campus to discuss their work.<\/p>\n
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As Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Prof. Nancy Harrowitz introduced the new Israel Studies minor to the program, as well as expanding courses in Jewish history and antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n Her research profile reflects her strong interest in Italian Jewish culture: in November, she gave a lecture on Giorgio Bassani and his Jewish identity in Rome. Continuing her research on the figure of Silvia Forti Lombroso, who escaped fascist and Nazi persecution, she published two articles on her last year, including <\/span>Fascism, Patria, Identity: Silvia Forti Lombroso and Jewish persecution,<\/span><\/i> 1938-1943<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n In March she spoke at the <\/span>Shared Legacies<\/span><\/i> screening and panel on the African American-Jewish civil rights alliance, and in April, she gave a talk on Elie Wiesel\u2019s humanitarian impact at the inaugural <\/span>Our Shared Values panel <\/span><\/i>at Boston University.<\/span><\/p>\n She is currently researching the epistolary relationship of Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7748,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15837,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5582\/revisions\/15837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}