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

Biographies, Discourses, and Transnational Networks

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Authors:
  1. Ruth Nattermann

    1. Contemporary European History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  • Comprises the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women's movement
  • Examines the foundation and development of the jewish Women's Association in Italy (ADEI) under fascism
  • Complicates received wisdom concerning the history of the Italian Jewish community

Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 1-34

  3. Italian-Jewish Family Identities and Secular Subculture

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 35-64

  4. Biographies Between Secularism and Jewish Self-Positioning

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 65-108

  5. Emancipation, Integration, and Dissociation

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 109-179

  6. La Grande Guerra: Italian-Jewish Women Between Pacifism, Interventionism, and National Euphoria

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 181-232

  7. Marginalization, Disenfranchisement, and Persecution Under Fascist Rule

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 233-308

  8. “Le Emancipate”? Italian-Jewish Women Between Risorgimento and Fascism

    • Ruth Nattermann
    Pages 309-332

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 333-387
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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. Drawing on ego-documents, contemporary journals and Jewish community archives, as well as records by the police and public authorities, it examines the tensions within the emancipation process between participation and exclusion. The book argues that the racial laws from 1938 did not represent the sudden end of an idyllic integration, but rather the climax of a long-term development. Social marginalization, the persecution of Jewish rights, and the assault on Jewish lives during fascism are analysed distinctly from the perspective of Jewish women.  In spite of their significant influence on the transnational orientation of the Italian women’s movement, their emancipation as women and Jewsremained incomplete.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Contemporary European History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Ruth Nattermann

About the author

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women’s Movement, 1861–1945

  • Book Subtitle: Biographies, Discourses, and Transnational Networks

  • Authors: Ruth Nattermann

  • Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97789-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97788-7Published: 01 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97791-7Published: 02 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97789-4Published: 30 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2635-2931

  • Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 387

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Modern History, European History, History of Italy, History, general

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