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Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137306562

ISBN: 978-1-349-56422-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 29, 2015

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Introduction

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 1 –11

[Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Florence was a city of natural and human sciences, not just art. It was intellectually lively in its present, and not just in memories of its Renaissance past, even if the stereotype of the city and of Italy abroad is one of literati and artists....
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Psychologists “in the True Sense of the Word”

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 13 –41

[What did a scholar living in Italy in the early twentieth century need in order to be and to be considered a psychologist? The question is a first step toward identifying and quantifying this professional category, albeit rather approximately. It is a complex question, and we can try to give a...
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Neo-idealism and the “Cinderella of the Sciences”

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 43 –70

[For love of psychology they had to come to terms with neo-idealism and Fascism; this was the justification repeatedly adopted by Italian psychologists a posteriori. Behind the protection of technical and aseptic scienticity, without values or choice, universal and neutral, some scientists of the...
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Fascistization, Discrimination, and Persecution

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 71 –111

[Prof. Francesco De Sarlo had directed the laboratory and the institute of psychology in Florence for 20 years, but in academic year 1923/24 he suddenly stopped teaching psychology. He did not retire: he had another 15 years to go before his pension. Yet from 1924 on he only kept the course of...
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The Zionist Network and Enzo Bonaventura: From Florence to Jerusalem

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 113 –153

[One specific characteristic of Italian Jewry has been its integration. They were traditionally patriotic and devoted to the monarchy. In 1848 the king of Sardinia had recognized their equality, subsequently extended to other regions until Italian unification. They generally had an excellent...
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The Anti-Fascist Network and Renata Calabresi: From Florence to Rome and New York

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Pages: 155 –198

[The census of Jewish academics ordered by the minister of national education Bottai, in a circular of August 9, 1938, was quite simple to carry out for tenured professors who were all state employees. But the more numerous and lower-status personnel were mainly dependent on the local budget of...

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