After Mussolini Jewish Life and Jewish Memories in Post-Fascist Italy

by Schwarz, Guri; Mazhar, Giovanni Noor

• ISBN13: 9780853038559
• ISBN10: 0853038554
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-05
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

In this book Guri Schwartz explores the genesis of the 'myth of the good Italian'. This myth was deliberately promoted by the Italian Foreign Ministry, which aimed in this way to obtain a non-punitive peace treaty by distancing the nation from German guilt. Through in-depth research he illustrates how Italian Jews, in their efforts to reintegrate in the country after the Second World War, contributed to give shape and offer legitimacy to a representation of Fascist persecutions which drastically downplayed Italian responsibilities in the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
The Reorganization of Jewish Life
Echoes of the Catastrophe	p. 3
A 'New' Leadership	p. 17
A Zionist Awakening	p. 47
Youth Movements	p. 69
Italian Citizenship and Jewish Identities	p. 97
Paths of Memory
Memory Lapses	p. 109
Public Uses of the Recent Past	p. 121
Memory Politics during the Cold War	p. 148
The Union of Italian-Jewish Communities and the Historiography on Fascist Anti-Semitism	p. 155
For a Critique of Italian-Jewish Self-Representation	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 194
Index	p. 215
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