"My twentieth century begins around 1880 and ends in the 1970s. It opens with the emigration to America and concludes with Europe's loss of standing and the increasing affirmation of the American Jewish world and Israel. Two crucial moments of transformation that concern all Jews, everywhere."

An important book both methodologically speaking and for its content. An engrossing excursus that begins in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century and recounts the Jewish experience up to recent times. Anna Foa lucidly demonstrates how the Shoah, which swept everything away, was nonetheless 'foreign' to the Jewish experience, to that richness and complexity expressed by the twentieth century, at least as much as the horror.
Elena Loewenthal, Tuttolibri

Gripping prose. Anna Foa describes the history of the new Jewish identity that was formed in the encounter with modernity, a multifaceted identity with many unpredictable aspects that still awaits comprehension and completion.
Lucetta Scaraffia, Corriere della Sera