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.
Ruth Nattermann is Associate Professor of Contemporary European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.
Innehållsförteckning
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.