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Beginning with the establishment of the first ghetto in Venice in
1516, then followed by that of Rome and other cities, the Jews had
to measure themselves against this circumscribed and ambivalent
place, which included them in the urban perimeter and at the same
time isolated them. For almost three centuries this was the space
in which the Jews cultivated their identity, on the one hand
preserving the characteristics of a millenary culture, while on the
other drawing from the world that opened up beyond that border: the
constant relationship between the “inside” and the
“outside” of the ghetto walls marks the life of the Jews on the
long road to emancipation. The volume is dedicated to this complex
and articulated reality, availing itself of a very rich critical
apparatus in dealing from every angle - historical, artistic,
sociological - with a highly current problem: the concepts of
resilience, integration, comparison between cultures, aspiration to
being the same while remaining different.
This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish
minority from the unification of the country to the end of the
First World War. The creation of an Italian nation-state introduced
new problems and new opportunities for its citizens. What did it
mean for the Jewish minority? How could members of the minority
combine and redefine Jewishness and Italianness in a radically new
political and legal framework? Key concepts such as family,
religion, nation, assimilation and - later - Zionism are observed
as they shift and change over time. The interaction between the
public and private spheres plays a pivotal role in the analysis,
and the self-fashioning of Italian Jewish elites is read alongside
the evolution of the cultural stereotypes typical of the time.
Reinterpreting the Italian national patriotic narrative through the
eyes of the Jews, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti is able to unveil
its less known layers and articulations, while at the same time
offering a new perspective from which to read the modern Jewish
experience in the Western World.
The volume investigates the interconnections between the Italian
Jewish worlds and wider European and Mediterranean circles,
situating the Italian Jewish experience within a transregional and
transnational context mindful of the complex set of networks,
relations, and loyalties that characterized Jewish diasporic life.
Preceded by a methodological introduction by the editors, the
chapters address rabbinic connections and ties of communal
solidarity in the early modern period, and examine the circulation
of Hebrew books and the overlap of national and transnational
identities after emancipation. For the twentieth century, this
volume additionally explores the Italian side of the Wissenschaft
des Judentums; the role of international Jewish agencies in the
years of Fascist racial persecution; the interactions between
Italian Jewry, JDPs and Zionist envoys after Word War II; and the
impact of Zionism in transforming modern Jewish identities.
The volume investigates the interconnections between the Italian
Jewish worlds and wider European and Mediterranean circles,
situating the Italian Jewish experience within a transregional and
transnational context mindful of the complex set of networks,
relations, and loyalties that characterized Jewish diasporic life.
Preceded by a methodological introduction by the editors, the
chapters address rabbinic connections and ties of communal
solidarity in the early modern period, and examine the circulation
of Hebrew books and the overlap of national and transnational
identities after emancipation. For the twentieth century, this
volume additionally explores the Italian side of the Wissenschaft
des Judentums; the role of international Jewish agencies in the
years of Fascist racial persecution; the interactions between
Italian Jewry, JDPs and Zionist envoys after Word War II; and the
impact of Zionism in transforming modern Jewish identities.
This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish
minority from the unification of the country to the end of the
First World War. The creation of an Italian nation-state introduced
new problems and new opportunities for its citizens. What did it
mean for the Jewish minority? How could members of the minority
combine and redefine Jewishness and Italianness in a radically new
political and legal framework? Key concepts such as family,
religion, nation, assimilation and - later - Zionism are observed
as they shift and change over time. The interaction between the
public and private spheres plays a pivotal role in the analysis,
and the self-fashioning of Italian Jewish elites is read alongside
the evolution of the cultural stereotypes typical of the time.
Reinterpreting the Italian national patriotic narrative through the
eyes of the Jews, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti is able to unveil
its less known layers and articulations, while at the same time
offering a new perspective from which to read the modern Jewish
experience in the Western World.
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