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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299804603321

Titolo

Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century : Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean / / edited by Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, Guri Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-89405-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 219 p.)

Disciplina

940.903

Soggetti

Europe—History—1492-

Civilization—History

Judaism and culture

Religion—History

History of Early Modern Europe

History of Modern Europe

Cultural History

Jewish Cultural Studies

History of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction;Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz -- 2. Rabbi Abraham Rovigo’s Home as a Center for Traveling Scholars; Matt Goldish -- 3. La Puerta de la Franquía: Livorno and Pan-Jewish Networks of Beneficence in the Eighteenth Century; Matthias Lehmann -- 4. Elia Benamozegh's Printing Presses: Livornese Crossroads and the New Margins of Italian Jewish History; Clémence Boulouque -- 5. Claiming Livorno: Citizenship, Commerce, and Culture in the Italian Jewish Diaspora; Alyssa Reiman -- 6. Living in Exile: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Study of Religion in Italy (1890s-1930s); Cristiana Facchini -- 7. Under Observation: Italian Jewry and European Jewish Philanthropic Organizations in 1938-1939; Tullia Catalan -- 8. Jewish DPs in Post-War Italy: The Role of Italian Jewry in a Multilateral Encounter (1945-48); Arturo Marzano -- 9. Young Italian



Jews in Israel and Back. Voices from a Generation (1945-1953); Marcella Simoni -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 that is mindful of the complex set of networks, relations, and loyalties that characterized Jewish diasporic life from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Preceded by a methodological introduction by the editors, the chapters present specific case studies that address rabbinic connections and ties of communal solidarity in the early modern period, and examine the circulation of Hebrew books and the complex 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 in the aftermath of Word War II; and the impact of Zionism in transforming modern Jewish identities.