Education
He studied at Queens" College, Cambridge and was Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
historian university professor author
He studied at Queens" College, Cambridge and was Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Professor in the 80"s at the University of Siena, since 1992 he has been Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence. Ginsborg is of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, et cetera, he signed a call in January 2002 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, which was to specifically penalize Holocaust denial.
They argued that Italy"s legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts.
The amended law project finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.