TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klein, Shira
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Italy's Jews from emancipation to fascism
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Jews
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1935-1945)
KW  - Ethnic relations
AB  - "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 This cultural and social history draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs"--
SN  - 9781108424103
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108539739
DO  - 10.1017/9781108539739
LA  - English
N1  - Shira Klein, Chapman University, California
ID  - 100884070X
ER  -