Europe and Love in the 1930s and 1940s: A couple of European Jews in the continent and in exile

A couple composed of 2 Jewish persons, an Italian woman and a German man, who met during the 1930s because he was obliged to leave Berlin; they married and left Italy in 1939 because of the racial  laws, going to Bolivia where they stayed until 1947. All this is based  on their correspondence in which they claim to be European at a time  when the Nazis and Fascists were trying to "purge" Europe from  anything Jewish.

Luisa Passerini is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Torino and External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. She has been Director of the research group « Europe : Emotions, Identities, Politics » at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, as the recipient of the Research Prize of Nordrhein-Westfalen for 2002-4. Her present trends of research are: European identity; the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourse on love; gender and generation as historical categories; memory and subjectivity; visuality as a historical source. Among her recent publications are, as author: Europe in Love, Love in Europe. Imagination and Politics Between the Wars (London and New York 1999); Il mito d’Europa. Radici antiche per nuovi simboli (Firenze 2002); Memory and Utopia. The primacy of intersubjectivity (London 2007), and, as editor: Across the Atlantic: Cultural Exchanges between Europe and the United States (Bruxelles 2000); Figures d’Europe. Images and Myths of Europe (Bruxelles 2003); (with Ruth Mas), Special Issue of the European Review of History on “Europe and Love – L’Europe et l’amour”, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2004; (with Nerina Milletti), Fuori della norma. Storia lesbiche nell’Italia della prima metà del Novecento (Torino 2007).

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