Making Italian Jews: Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation, 1861-1918 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Ferrara Degli Uberti, Carlotta (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137493879 ISBN-13: 9781137493873 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - Religion | Judaism - General - History | Social History |
Dewey: 200.09 |
LCCN: 2016956555 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.07 lbs) 254 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 lites 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. |