Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
European History Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,4 (1986) 403-439
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Emancipation
Abstract:
With the Restoration (1815), Italian Jews lost the civil rights granted by the Napoleonic regime. In many states they were confined to ghettos, banned from the ownership of landed property, from state schools and universities, from medicine, law, and state service. In 1828, liberal publicists began an emancipation campaign which succeeded in 1848. As in France, they held a negative view of the Jews but assumed, as did many Jews, that emancipation would lead to assimilation. Emancipation was opposed by clerical circles wishing to retain the Catholic character of the State. Some popular opposition, especially among workers and shopkeepers who felt threatened by Jewish competition, resulted in violent incidents in Rome and a blood libel in Acqui. Since it was part of the Risorgimento movement, the equal status of the Jews was little questioned after 1848.
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