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What is Italy's Jews : from emancipation to fascism about?
How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II - during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture - led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. Italy's Jews experienced a century of dramatic changes, from emancipation in 1848, to the 1938 Racial Laws, wartime refuge in America and Palestine, and the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors. This cultural and social history draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs. ** Review Advance praise: 'Most Italian Jews were pro-Fascist (until anti-Semitic legislation in 1938) and the Italian dictatorship's major killing afflicted the Arabs and Berbers of Libya and the peoples of Ethiopia. Shira Klein, with skilled and vivid use of or
Who reads Italy's Jews : from emancipation to fascism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Shira Klein
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108335805
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities