<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/mystery-uncovered-in-neh-research-on-modern-italy-and-jews.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>03/19/2019</pubDate><title>Mystery Uncovered in NEH Research on Modern Italy and Jews</title><description>His research on the experience of Italian Jews as a way of understanding Italian modernization in the 19th century took him from Florence in the Tuscan region to Rome and the Holy See's secret...Franklin &amp; Marshall College offers students a hands-on education that emphasizes close relationships with faculty. Students flourish in a supportive community that treats them as an individual, and their successes continue long after F&amp;M. The College is a national leader in launching students and alumni to opportunities where they make a difference in the community and the world.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/422512475897142756-03-08-scott-lerner-10-dg.0.38.1200.723.full.jpg" alt="The story within the story he is researching was so compelling that Lerner decided to write a crossover book that combines scholarship and novel writing."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>French and Francophone Studies</tag><tag>Humanities</tag><tag>Italian and Italian Studies</tag><tag>Judaic Studies</tag></tags></item>