1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910739451103321

Autore

Nattermann Ruth

Titolo

Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women's Movement, 1861-1945 : Biographies, Discourses, and Transnational Networks / / by Ruth Nattermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-97789-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 pages)

Collana

Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-294X

Disciplina

305.42

305.42089924045

Soggetti

History, Modern

Europe - History

Italy - History

Women - History

Modern History

European History

History of Italy

Women's History / History of Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Italian-Jewish Family Identities and Secular Subculture -- 3. Biographies between Secularity and Jewish Self-Positioning -- 4. Emancipation, Integration, and Dissociation -- 5. La Grande Guerra: Italian-Jewish Women between Pacifism, Interventionism and National Euphoria -- 6. Marginalization and Persecution, Under Fascist Rule -- "Le emancipate"? Italian-Jewish Women between Risorgimento and Fascism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women's movement, focussing in a transnational perspective on the experience of Italian-Jewish protagonists in Liberal Italy, during the First World War and the Fascist dictatorship until 1945. Drawing on ego-documents, contemporary journals and Jewish community archives, as well as records by the police and public authorities, it



examines the tensions within the emancipation process between participation and exclusion. The book argues that the racial laws from 1938 did not represent the sudden end of an idyllic integration, but rather the climax of a long-term development. Social marginalization, the persecution of Jewish rights, and the assault on Jewish lives during fascism are analysed distinctly from the perspective of Jewish women. In spite of their significant influence on the transnational orientation of the Italian women's movement, their emancipation as women and Jews remained incomplete. Ruth Nattermann is Associate Professor of Contemporary European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.