Overview
Explores concepts such as the family and Zionism and how these shifted over time
Depicts the self-fashioning of Italian Jews from unification to the end of the First World War
Analyses the interaction between the public and private spheres in the lives of the Jewish-Italian minority
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Jews in Private: Rituals and Rules of Belonging
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Front Matter
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Jews in Public: Fellow Citizens and Compatriots
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About this book
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 élites 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.
Reviews
“Dr. Ferrara degli Uberti contests the conventional triumphalist view of Italian Jewish history by revealing the internal tensions and ambiguities that beset the process of integration in the post-emancipation period. Using hitherto neglected sources, she draws an arresting portrait of a community struggling to reshape Judaism and the Jews, especially Judaism's relationship to the state and the individual's balance between the "Italian" and the "Jewish".” (David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti is Lecturer in Italian History at University College London, UK. She has published extensively on topics of Italian Jewish history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Italian Jews
Book Subtitle: Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation, 1861–1918
Authors: Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49388-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49387-3Published: 22 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69719-9Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49388-0Published: 10 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 254
Additional Information: Translation from the Italian edition: Fare gli ebrei italiani. Autorappresentazioni di una minoranza (1861-1918) Il Mulino, Bologna 2011
Topics: History of Italy, Judaism, Social History, Cultural History, History of Religion