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Making Italian Jews : family, gender, religion and the nation, 1861-1918 /

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 coul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferrara degli Uberti, Carlotta (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Subjects:
Jews > Italy > History > 19th century.
Jews > Italy > History > 20th century.
Jews > Identity.
Ethnicity > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • The Jew of the past and the Jew of the present ; Part I. Jews in private : rituals and rules of belonging. In the family
  • Boundary lines : the body in religion and science ; Part II. Jews in public : fellow citizens and compatriots. Individual liberties and community ties
  • Plural identities in the age of nationalisms ; Conclusions.