Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,3 (2007) 103-134
Keywords:
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Zionism
Abstract:
From the Habsburg period, the Jews in Trieste were Italian-speaking and Italian-oriented. They supported Zionism, but only promoted the migration of Jews from outside the city to the Land of Israel. For many Triestine Jews, their Zionism was linked to Italian aspirations in the eastern Mediterranean. From the 1930s, the fascist regime came to regard Jews, and especially Zionism, as an anti-national force. With the influx of Jewish refugees from Germany, and the growing rapprochement between Italy and Germany, attacks on Jews became more frequent and popular antisemitism surfaced in Trieste. The racial laws promulgated in 1938 revoked the Italian citizenship of many Jews. The escape of Europe's Jews to Palestine through Italy continued unhindered until August 1939, and with some difficulties until May 1940. In 1938-40 many Triestine Jews joined this exodus. With the German occupation of Trieste in September 1943, those Jews who had failed to flee the city were deported by the Nazis or interned in the Risiera di San Sabba camp.
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