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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Italy's Jews
    sub title: from emancipation to Fascism
  name:
    name part: Klein, Shira
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: How did Italians treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II, during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture, led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. Italy's Jews experienced a century of dramatic changes, from emancipation in 1848, to the 1938 Racial Laws, wartime refuge in America and Palestine and the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors. This cultural and social history draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs.
  table of contents: Introduction; 1. The making of Italian Jewish patriots: emancipation, World War I, and Fascism; 2. A thriving Jewish life: Jewish culture in the Kingdom of Italy; 3. Five long years of Italian racism: anti-Jewish laws, 1938-1943; 4. Hunting for Jews: the Italian and German manhunt in the Republic of Sal-, 1943-1945; 5. Imagining Italy: Italian Jewish refugees in the United States; 6. Fur coats in the Desert: Italian Jewish refugees in Palestine; 7. Recovery and revival: postwar Italian Jewry and the JDC; 8. The myth of the good Italian: making peace with postwar Italy; Conclusion.
  note: Shira Klein, Chapman University, California.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Italy
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Italy
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    topic: Ethnic relations
  classification: DS135.I8 K54 2018
  classification: 945/.004924009041
  identifier: 9781108424103
  identifier: 1108424104
  identifier: 2017057884
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171204
    record change date: 20180410123403.0
    record identifier: in00003920735