Shoah e Historia magistra vitae : il ritorno della storia come disciplina morale

The article considers the complex intertwining of school teaching of history, politics of memory and moral education. Reconstructs the developments of the topos of historia magistra vitae, which was rejected by historiography between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and then made a comeback at the end of the century, when there was a rediscovery by historians of the moral dimension of their work. The idea that history taught in school has moral education goals has also had courses and recursions. The article shows how the growing weight of the Shoah in Italian schools is a vehicle for a moral education centered on good feelings and the rejection of hatred, with declensions that are partly similar and partly different from those in other Western countries