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Stories of Jewish Life - Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985 (Hardcover)
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Stories of Jewish Life - Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985 (Hardcover)
Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876-1985
is an unconventional memoir-an integrated collection of short
stories and personal essays. Author Augusto Segre was a well-known
public figure in post-WWII Italy who worked as a journalist,
educator, scholar, editor, activist, and rabbi. He begins his book
with stories shaped from the oral narratives of his home community
as it emerged from the ghetto era, continues with his own
experiences under fascism and as a partisan in WWII, and ends with
his emigration to Israel. Spanning the years 1876 (one generation
after emancipation from the ghetto) to 1985 (one generation after
the Shoah), Segre presents this period as an era in which Italian
Jewry underwent a long-term internal crisis that challenged its
core values and identity. He embeds the major cultural and
political trends of the era in small yet telling episodes from the
lives of ordinary people. The first half of the book takes place in
Casale Monferrato-a small provincial capital in the Piedmont region
in northwest Italy. The second half, continuing in Casale in the
late 1920s but eventually shifting to Rome then Jerusalem, follows
the experiences of a boy named Moshe (Segre's Jewish name and his
stand-in). Moshe relates episodes of Italian Jewry from the 1920s
to the 1980s that portray the insidiousness of fascism as well as
the contradictions within the Jewish community, especially in its
post-ghetto relationship to Italian society. The painful
transformation of Italian Jewry manifests itself in universal
themes: the seductiveness of modern life, the betrayal of
tradition, the attraction of fashionable political movements, the
corrosive effects of totalitarianism, and ultimately, on the
positive side, national rebirth and renewal in Israel. These themes
give the book significance beyond the "small world" from which they
arise because they are issues that confront any society, especially
those emerging from a traditional way of life and entering the
modern world. Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history,
Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will
find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
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