Making Italian Jews: Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation, 1861–1918 1st Edition Carlotta Ferrara Degli Uberti 1137493887 9781137493880

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• ISBN 10: 1137493887 
• ISBN 13: 9781137493880
• Author: Carlotta Ferrara Degli Uberti

This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish minority from the unification of the country to the end of the First World War.  The creation of an Italian nation-state introduced new problems and new opportunities for its citizens. What did it mean for the Jewish minority?  How could members of the minority combine and redefine Jewishness and Italianness in a radically new political and legal framework? Key concepts such as family, religion, nation, assimilation and – later – Zionism are observed as they shift and change over time. The interaction between the public and private spheres plays a pivotal role in the analysis, and the self-fashioning of Italian Jewish élites is read alongside the evolution of the cultural stereotypes typical of the time. Reinterpreting the Italian national patriotic narrative through the eyes of the Jews, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti is able to unveil its less known layers and articulations, while at the same time offering a new perspective from which to read the modern Jewish experience in the Western World.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Jew of the Past and the Jew of the Present

1.1 A ‘New Era’: Jewish Journalism

1.2 Citizens and Israelites

Notes

Part I: Jews in Private: Rituals and Rules of Belonging

Chapter 2: In the Family

2.1 A Risorgimento Feuilleton

2.2 ‘Preserving the Nature of the Race’

2.3 Permitted Love and Forbidden Love

2.4 The Consequences of Betrayal

2.5 ‘Cherchez la Femme’

2.6 Over to the Readers

2.7 Virtuous Women

Notes

Chapter 3: Boundary Lines: The Body in Religion and Science

3.1 ‘My Covenant in Your Flesh Is to Be an Everlasting Covenant’

3.2 The Uncircumcised

3.3 Moses the Medical Hygienist

3.4 Performance Anxiety

Notes

Part II: Jews in Public: Fellow Citizens and Compatriots

Chapter 4: Individual Liberties and Community Ties

4.1 Attempts at Institutional Coordination

4.2 Religious Law and Civil Law

4.3 From Judicial Abstraction to Real Life

Notes

Chapter 5: Plural Identities in the Age of Nationalisms

5.1 Heroes and Martyrs

5.2 Agreements and Disagreements: Zionism and Related Issues

5.3 Brothers of Italy, Brothers in Faith

5.4 War Sermons

5.5 ‘Jerusalem Delivered’

Notes

Chapter 6: Conclusions

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