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Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women’s Movement, 1861–1945

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97789-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-97788-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 1, 2022

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Introduction

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 1 –34

[In September 1938, an article appeared in the antisemitic journal La Difesa della Razza with the telling title “Cleansing of the Books.” The anonymous author discussed the planned removal of writings by female Jewish writers, poets, and educators from Italian school curricula in uncompromising...
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Italian-Jewish Family Identities and Secular Subculture

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 35 –64

[This chapter elucidates various forms of Jewish family identity within an emerging secular subculture that took on a central role in the self-positioning of acculturated protagonists in post-emancipation Italy, among them the prominent Rosselli, Lombroso, and Orvieto families. Secular family...
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Biographies Between Secularism and Jewish Self-Positioning

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 65 –108

[This chapter focuses on the biographies of important pioneers in the Italian women’s movement, among them Sara Levi Nathan, Adele Della Vida Levi, Carolina Luzzatto, and Eugenia Pavia Gentilomo. All of the women’s biographies examined show the conspicuous importance of Jewish family and...
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Emancipation, Integration, and Dissociation

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 109 –179

[This chapter deals with the consolidation of the organized Italian women’s movement from the 1880s onward. In this period, the tensions within the emancipation process of Jewish feminists intensified. The chapter reconstructs both the central roles of Jewish protagonists, especially Paolina...
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La Grande Guerra: Italian-Jewish Women Between Pacifism, Interventionism, and National Euphoria

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 181 –232

[This chapter centers on World War I. It examines the essential relevance of the “Great War” for Italian-Jewish women’s expectations, experiences, and memories, and highlights its significance as a turning point for ideological developments and Jewish/non-Jewish relationships, as well as...
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Marginalization, Disenfranchisement, and Persecution Under Fascist Rule

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 233 –308

[This chapter focuses on the exclusion and persecution of Italian-Jewish women during the Fascist regime. The social exclusion of politically dissident Jewish feminists started as early as the 1920s, while anti-fascist Jewish family and friendship networks became even closer. From the middle of...
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“Le Emancipate”? Italian-Jewish Women Between Risorgimento and Fascism

Nattermann, Ruth

Pages: 309 –332

[The convoluted development of Italian-Jewish female protagonists between Risorgimento and fascism presents itself as a history of incomplete emancipation. Their societal integration process was neither straightforward nor unproblematic and remained far away from the often-quoted “success story”...

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