Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
Research subject: Concentration camps set up in Libya by the Italian fascist regime for the suppression of anti-colonial resistance during the 'pacificazione' and concentration camps established for the internment of Jews during World War II
Supervisor: Prof. Manuela Consonni and Prof. Ethan Katz
Abstract: The research deals with concentration camps set up in Libya by the Italian fascist regime for the suppression of anti-colonial resistance during the 'pacificazione' and concentration camps established for the internment of Jews during World War II. The longue durée examination of concentration camp development in Libya exposes the continuity and changes in the distinctive application of repressive measures on elements of society who at different moments were considered enemies of fascist hegemony and legitimate targets of its violent policy. Brutal repression of Jewish and non-Jewish subjects by the fascist regime is rarely considered simultaneously, the first enveloped in Holocaust narratives, and often excluded from the European paradigm of Holocaust research, and the latter in colonial history, generally omitted from Italian national narratives. Examining these simultaneously, raises questions on the links between racist, anti-semitic and genocidal practices.
Bio: Livia Tagliacozzo is writing her PhD at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Manuela Consonni and Prof. Ethan Katz). Her research deals with concentration camps set up in Libya during the fascist "ventennio״. She received a BA in Liberal Arts at Tel Aviv University and an MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2018-19 she was a Felix Posen Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
Publication:
https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/solidarity-among-colonial-subjects-in-wartime-libya-1940-1943/
Presidential Stipend 2019/20