Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi rule, 1922-1945
By: edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman
Contributors: Zimmerman, Joshua D
Publisher: University of Cambridge Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Jews -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Persecutions -- Italy; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Italy; Italy -- History -- 1922-1945; Italy -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945, brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of Mussolini's prime ministership through the end of the Second World War. Challenging the myth of Italian benevolence during the Fascist period, the authors investigate the treatment of Jews by Italians during the Holocaust and the native versus foreign roots of Italian Fascist anti-Semitism. Each essay in this volume illustrates a different aspect of Italian Jewry under Fascist and Nazi rule. Areas of inquiry include the role of the Catholic Church with special reference to Pope Plus XII, Mussolini's attitude, and anti-Jewish persecution. Included also is an examination of cover images and articles from the Italian racist newspaper, La Difesa della Razza, intended to lay bare the influence of the Italian media on the general Italian public."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The double-bind of Italian Jews : acceptance and assimilation / Alexander Stille; title: Italian Jewish identity from the Risorgimento to Fascism, 1848-1938 /  Mario Toscano; title: Mussolini and the Jews on the eve of the march on Rome  / Giorgio Fabre; title: Characteristics and objectives of the anti-Jewish racial laws in Fascist Italy, 1938-1943 / Michele Sarfatti; title: The exclusion of Jews from Italian academies / Annalisa Capristo; title: The damage to Italian culture : the fate of Jewish university professors in Fascist Italy and after, 1938-1946 / Roberto Finzi; title: Building a racial state : images of the Jew in the illustrated Fascist Magazine, La difesa della razza, 1938-1943 / Sandro Servi; title: The impact of anti-Jewish legislation on everyday life and the response of Italian Jews, 1938-1943 / Iael Nidam-Orvieto; title: The children of Villa Emma at Nonantola / Klaus Voigt; title: Anti-Jewish persecution and Italian society / Fabio Levi; title: The Shoah in Italy : its history and characteristics / Liliana Picciotto; title: The Möllhausen telegram, the Kappler decodes, and the deportation of the Jews of Rome : the new CIA-OSS documents, 2000-2002 / Robert Katz; title: The persecution of Jews in two regions of German-occupied northern Italy, 1943-1945 : Operationszone Alpenvorland and Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland / Cinzia Villani; title: The papal response to Nazi and Fascist anti-semitism : from Pius XI to Pius XII / Frank J. Coppa; title: Pius XII and the rescue of Jews in Italy : evidence of a papal directive / Susan Zuccotti; title: The rescued and the rescuers in private and public memories / Anna Bravo; title: Return of the repressed : Italian film and Holocaust memory / Millicent Marcus; title: The secret histories of Roberto Benigni's Life is beautiful / Ruth Ben-Ghiat