The most ancient of minorities : the Jews of Italy

Author(s)

• Pugliese, Stanislao G.
• Hofstra University

Bibliographic Information

The most ancient of minorities : the Jews of Italy

edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University

（Contributions in ethnic studies, no. 36）

Greenwood Press, 2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-379) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Israel in Italy: Wrestling with the Lord in the Land of Divine Dew by Stanislao G. Pugliese Historiography & the Law Legal Discrimination Against the Jews: Ancient Rome to Unification by Sandra Tozzini Blaming the Victims: Modern Historiography on the Early Imperial Mistreatment of Roman Jews by Dixon Slingerland Historical Sources on Italian Jews: From the 14th Century to the Shoah by Micaela Procaccia Medieval & Renaissance Italy Florence Against the Jews or Jews Against Florence in the 14th and 15th Centuries? by Michele Luzzati Between Tradition and Modernity: The Sephardim of Livorno at the End of the 17th Century by Julia R. Lieberman Jewish Dancing Master and "Jewish Dance" in Renaissance Italy by Barbara Sparti The Expulsion from the Papal States (1569) in the Light of Hebrew Sources by Abraham David The Case of Ferdinando Alvarez and His Wife Leocadia of Rome (1640) by Nancy Goldsmith Leiphart Giovanni di Giovanni: Chronicler of Sicily's Jews by Salvatore Rotella Literature, Art, and Identity Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Lnaguage? by George Jochnowitz The Culture of Italian Jews and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by H. Wendell Howard Emancipation and Jewish Literature in the Italian Canon by Roberto Dainotto Assimilationn vs. Orthodoxy in the Literature of 20th Century Italian Jews by Lynn Gunzberg Racial Laws and Internment in Natalia Ginzberg's Lessico familiare by Claudia Nocentini Clara Sereni and Contemporary Italian Jewish Literature by Elisabetta Nelsen Art, Architecture, and Italian Jewish Identity by Samuel Gruber Italian Jewish Literature from the Second World War to the 1990s by Raniero Speelman Contemporary Jewish Memorialists by Fabio Girelli-Carasi World War II & the Holocaust Haven 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 Hametz Pope Pius XI's Conflict with Fascist Italy's Anti-Semitism and Jewish Policies by Frank Coppa A "Cool-Blood" Anti-Semitism: The First Anti-Semitic Campaign of the Fascist Regime (1934) by Luc Nemeth Why Was Italy So Impervious to Anti-Semitism (to 1938)? by Frederick M. Schweitzer Rescue or Annihilation: The Role of the Italian Occupation Forces Towards the Jews in World War II by Yitzchak Kerem The Priebke Trials by David Travis Primo Levi Deporting Identity: The Testimonies of Primo Levi and Giuliana Tedeschi by Marie Orton Narrating Auschwitz: Linguistic Strategies in Primo Levi's Holocaust Memoirs by Eva Gold The Tower of Babel: Language and Power in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz by Anna Petrov Bumble "The Language of the Witness" Holocaust Survivors Speak Renato Almansi Lucia Servadio Bedarida Epilogue: The Survival of "The Most Ancient of Minorities" by Stephen Siporin Bibliography: The Jews of Italy: A Selected Bibliography, 1996-1999 by James Tasato Mellone Index

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Details

• NCID: BA67437177
• ISBN:
  • 0313318956
• LCCN: 2001040593
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 399 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS135.I8
  • DC21 : 945/.004924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- Italy -- History
  • LCSH : Jews -- Italy -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Italy
  • LCSH : Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Personal narratives
  • LCSH : Italy -- Ethnic relations
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00678042