Most Ancient of Minorities

The Jews of Italy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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A volume of essays that examine more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history, from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation, literature, and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity.The essays make clear that the Italian Jews have a unique history in Europe. A Jewish colony existed in Rome 200 years before the birth of Christ; the Eternal City therefore represents the oldest Jewish community in the Western world. Successive waves of immigrants created dozens of Jewish communities on the peninsula. Depending on the time and the place, Italian Jews could expect tolerance, discrimination, persecution, or outright violence. Still, they fared better than their brethren in other parts of Europe. Because of their long history on the peninsula, the volume covers an astonishing variety of subjects: from legal discrimination and historical sources to Jewish dancing masters in the Renaissance; from architecture to contradictory interpretations of the Holocaust; from the special section on the linguistic and moral power of Primo Levi to child-rearing manuals of 17th-century Livorno. In addition, two Holocaust survivors recount their experiences in an extraordinary section, The Language of the Witness. Engaging essays for scholars, students, and other researchers interested in Italian Studies and the roles the peninsula's Jewish population played through history.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-03-30
Mått156 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt709 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions in Ethnic Studies
Antal sidor416
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313318955

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Introduction: Israel in Italy: Wrestling with the Lord in the Land of Divine Dew by Stanislao G. PuglieseHistoriography & the LawLegal Discrimination Against the Jews: Ancient Rome to Unification by Sandra TozziniBlaming the Victims: Modern Historiography on the Early Imperial Mistreatment of Roman Jews by Dixon SlingerlandHistorical Sources on Italian Jews: From the 14th Century to the Shoah by Micaela ProcacciaMedieval & Renaissance ItalyFlorence Against the Jews or Jews Against Florence in the 14th and 15th Centuries? by Michele LuzzatiBetween Tradition and Modernity: The Sephardim of Livorno at the End of the 17th Century by Julia R. LiebermanJewish Dancing Master and "Jewish Dance" in Renaissance Italy by Barbara SpartiThe Expulsion from the Papal States (1569) in the Light of Hebrew Sources by Abraham DavidThe Case of Ferdinando Alvarez and His Wife Leocadia of Rome (1640) by Nancy Goldsmith LeiphartGiovanni di Giovanni: Chronicler of Sicily's Jews by Salvatore RotellaLiterature, Art, and IdentityJudeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Lnaguage? by George JochnowitzThe Culture of Italian Jews and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by H. Wendell HowardEmancipation and Jewish Literature in the Italian Canon by Roberto DainottoAssimilationn vs. Orthodoxy in the Literature of 20th Century Italian Jews by Lynn GunzbergRacial Laws and Internment in Natalia Ginzberg's Lessico familiare by Claudia NocentiniClara Sereni and Contemporary Italian Jewish Literature by Elisabetta NelsenArt, Architecture, and Italian Jewish Identity by Samuel GruberItalian Jewish Literature from the Second World War to the 1990s by Raniero SpeelmanContemporary Jewish Memorialists by Fabio Girelli-CarasiWorld War II & the HolocaustHaven or Hell: Italy's Refuge for Jews, 1933-1945 by Maryann Calendrille"Di razza ebraica": Fascist Name Legislation and the Designation of Jews in Trieste by Maura HametzPope Pius XI's Conflict with Fascist Italy's Anti-Semitism and Jewish Policies by Frank CoppaA "Cool-Blood" Anti-Semitism: The First Anti-Semitic Campaign of the Fascist Regime (1934) by Luc NemethWhy Was Italy So Impervious to Anti-Semitism (to 1938)? by Frederick M. SchweitzerRescue or Annihilation: The Role of the Italian Occupation Forces Towards the Jews in World War II by Yitzchak KeremThe Priebke Trials by David TravisPrimo LeviDeporting Identity: The Testimonies of Primo Levi and Giuliana Tedeschi by Marie OrtonNarrating Auschwitz: Linguistic Strategies in Primo Levi's Holocaust Memoirs by Eva GoldThe Tower of Babel: Language and Power in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz by Anna Petrov Bumble"The Language of the Witness" Holocaust Survivors SpeakRenato AlmansiLucia Servadio BedaridaEpilogue: The Survival of "The Most Ancient of Minorities" by Stephen SiporinBibliography: The Jews of Italy: A Selected Bibliography, 1996-1999 by James Tasato MelloneIndex