Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Zakhor; rivista di storia degli ebrei d'Italia
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1999) 181-208
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Deals with repercussions of the persecution of Italian Jews during 1938-56, underling the generational problem. The promulgation of the Racial Laws in 1938 caused divergences between four age-groups: those who were old in 1938; 30-50-year-olds in 1938; younger people, born between 1914-24; and those who were too young to understand the events. After the war, the number of Jewish centers and Jewish youth movements grew, and the role of Jewish identity and socialization was greater than that of Jewish tradition. The persecution forced on these four groups a sense of Jewish identity without interrupting the process of secularization; it undermined the Risorgimento's idea of integration, replacing it with myths of anti-fascism, resistance, Zionism and the State of Israel.
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