Issue14 / December 2018 Focus Miscellanea 2018 Introduction “I see a man of great wisdom… and in his hand is a nimble scribe’s pen.”The Readers and Writers of Shomer Tziyon Hane’eman by Phil Keisman Jewish Self-Defense against the Blood Libel in Mid-Nineteenth Century Italy: the Badia Affair and Proceedings of the Castilliero Trial (1855-56) by Emanuele D’Antonio The Representations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Italian New Left’s Periodicals of the 1970s by Sonia Zanier Literary Theory and the Jewish Condition: Assimilation as a Hypertextual Practice by Carmen Dell’Aversano
