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Michelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (She Writes Press, 2020)
The intense interest in the horrors of World War II that has characterized the last few years has tended to overshadow other aspects of the long history of Jewish populations in Europe and the antisemitism that often—although not invariably—complicated that history. Michelle Cameron’s new novel, Beyond the Ghetto Gates (She Writes Press, 2020), explores one little-known episode of that past: the effect of Napoleon’s invasion of 1796–97 on the Italian port city of Ancona. The campaign of French revolutionary troops to conquer the still-disunited land of Italy has unexpected consequences when…
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