Table of Contents

Introduction: Israel in Italy: Wrestling with the Lord in the Land of Divine Dew by Stanislao G. Pugliese Historiography & the Law Legal Discrimination Against the Jews: Ancient Rome to Unification by Sandra Tozzini Blaming the Victims: Modern Historiography on the Early Imperial Mistreatment of Roman Jews by Dixon Slingerland Historical Sources on Italian Jews: From the 14th Century to the Shoah by Micaela Procaccia Medieval & Renaissance Italy Florence Against the Jews or Jews Against Florence in the 14th and 15th Centuries? by Michele Luzzati Between Tradition and Modernity: The Sephardim of Livorno at the End of the 17th Century by Julia R. Lieberman Jewish Dancing Master and "Jewish Dance" in Renaissance Italy by Barbara Sparti The Expulsion from the Papal States (1569) in the Light of Hebrew Sources by Abraham David The Case of Ferdinando Alvarez and His Wife Leocadia of Rome (1640) by Nancy Goldsmith Leiphart Giovanni di Giovanni: Chronicler of Sicily's Jews by Salvatore Rotella Literature, Art, and Identity Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Lnaguage? by George Jochnowitz The Culture of Italian Jews and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by H. Wendell Howard Emancipation and Jewish Literature in the Italian Canon by Roberto Dainotto Assimilationn vs. Orthodoxy in the Literature of 20th Century Italian Jews by Lynn Gunzberg Racial Laws and Internment in Natalia Ginzberg's Lessico familiare by Claudia Nocentini Clara Sereni and Contemporary Italian Jewish Literature by Elisabetta Nelsen Art, Architecture, and Italian Jewish Identity by Samuel Gruber Italian Jewish Literature from the Second World War to the 1990s by Raniero Speelman Contemporary Jewish Memorialists by Fabio Girelli-Carasi World War II & the Holocaust Haven or Hell: Italy's Refuge for Jews, 1933-1945 by Maryann Calendrille "Di razza ebraica": Fascist Name Legislation and the Designation of Jews in Trieste by Maura Hametz Pope Pius XI's Conflict with Fascist Italy's Anti-Semitism and Jewish Policies by Frank Coppa A "Cool-Blood" Anti-Semitism: The First Anti-Semitic Campaign of the Fascist Regime (1934) by Luc Nemeth Why Was Italy So Impervious to Anti-Semitism (to 1938)? by Frederick M. Schweitzer Rescue or Annihilation: The Role of the Italian Occupation Forces Towards the Jews in World War II by Yitzchak Kerem The Priebke Trials by David Travis Primo Levi Deporting Identity: The Testimonies of Primo Levi and Giuliana Tedeschi by Marie Orton Narrating Auschwitz: Linguistic Strategies in Primo Levi's Holocaust Memoirs by Eva Gold The Tower of Babel: Language and Power in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz by Anna Petrov Bumble "The Language of the Witness" Holocaust Survivors Speak Renato Almansi Lucia Servadio Bedarida Epilogue: The Survival of "The Most Ancient of Minorities" by Stephen Siporin Bibliography: The Jews of Italy: A Selected Bibliography, 1996-1999 by James Tasato Mellone Index

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Examines more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history.

About the Author

STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University and a Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University. He has published widely on Italian and Italian-American subjects and is the author of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile, which was awarded the 2000 International Ignazio Silone Prize.

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?This contribution to Jewish-Italian studies probes multiple aspects of this joint history, from Rome as the oldest Jewish community in the Western world to account by Italian Holocaust survivors including Primo Levi.?-Reference & Research Book News

"This contribution to Jewish-Italian studies probes multiple aspects of this joint history, from Rome as the oldest Jewish community in the Western world to account by Italian Holocaust survivors including Primo Levi."-Reference & Research Book News