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Ferramonti di Tarsia was the largest internment camp in Southern Italy, both in terms of its size and number of internees - mainly Jews from Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia. An almost forgotten chapter of the Italian history, it served as an absurd and ephemeral meeting place of cultures, languages, religions, and traditions. Both as a fascist camp (1940-1943) and as a DP-camp under British mandate (1943-1945), Ferramonti experienced an intensive musical life, whose features and peculiarities are reconstructed in this book on the basis of personal and administrative sources. Musical practices and cultural behaviors proved fundamental for inmates’ survival and preservation of their individual and collective identities.

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Silvia Del Zoppo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin and teaching assistant at the University of Milan. After her studies in piano, musicology and philosophy, she received her cotutelle PhD in Musicology and in Literature, Arts and Environmental Heritage at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Università degli Studi di Milano. She was awarded the «Lucia Forneron» prize for a research stay at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the «Maurizio e Clotilde Pontecorvo» grant for a research project at MEIS (Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah – Ferrara).

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