Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Studi Storici
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,2-3 (1993) 657-685
Keywords:
Gramsci, Antonio,
;
Schucht, Tatiana
;
Sraffa, Pietro
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The revised text of a paper delivered at the congress "Cultura ebraica e cultura scientifica in Italia, " Rome, November 1992. Discusses Gramsci's position on Jews and antisemitism as reflected in "Lettere dal carcere" - his correspondence with his sister-in-law Tatiana Schucht and with Pietro Sraffa, both Jews, at the beginning of the 1930s. To Tatiana's assertion that the Jew belongs to "two worlds" because of his irreducible Jewish identity, Gramsci replied that only antisemites recognize a difference between Jews and Gentiles, and that emancipation puts an end to any difference. Gramsci identified Jewishness with the culture and lifestyle of the ghetto, and thought that through "modernization" the Jews would assimilate into the Italian nation. He only acknowledged differences of religion and not nationality, and to Sraffa's observations on the restrictive fascist regulations of 1930-31, he maintained that they were expressions not of antisemitism but of political struggle (e.g. against "Jewish Freemasonry").
Note:
Appeared also in "Cultura ebraica e cultura scientifica in Italia", 1994.
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