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- Title
Italya. Jewish Stories, Italian History by Germano Maifreda (review).
- Authors
Lolli, Elena
- Abstract
In order to understand Italian history as inclusive of the Jewish experience, Maifreda suggests going beyond the antisemitism parameters and reflect on how the Jews have systematically negotiated their own position within the Italian authorities over the centuries. The unstoppable economic, social, and political rise of the Formiggini family, the official jewelers of the Crown of Italy, in Napoleonic Milan is an impressive example of the opportunities provided at the start of the nineteenth century offered to Jews (Chapter 6). In Chapter 3, the author shows how Jews found themselves adopting Christian procedures, yet also modifying them for Jewish use in a constant dialectical relationship, even during the ghetto period.
- Subjects
SEPHARDIM; JEWISH ghettos; JEWISH families; JUDAISM; JEWISH women; ITALIAN history; ITALIAN Jews
- Publication
Journal of Jewish Identities, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 2, p263
- ISSN
1939-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jji.2022.0026