Paul Ginsborg


Paul Ginsborg is a British historian. 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.

Education

He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, and was subsequently a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Law on Holocaust denial

Ginsborg is of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, etc., 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.

Publications