Overview
- Traces the contradictions between the expectations the Italian Jewish community had for women and the choices women made
- Shows how the Jewish community in Italy in this era identified itself as a component of the national bourgeoisie
- Analyzes how religious and cultural values shaped Italian Jewish women's innovative social commitment to emancipation
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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This book investigates one of the major issues that runs through the history of Italian Judaism in the aftermath of emancipation: the correlation between integration, seen as the acquisition of citizenship and culture without renouncing Jewish identity, and assimilation, intended as an open refusal of Judaism of any participation in the community. On account of that correlation, identity has become one of the crucial problems in the history of the Italian Jewish community. This volume aims to discuss the setting of construction and formation--the family-- and focuses on women's experiences, specifically. Indeed, women were called through emancipation to ensure the continuity of Jewish religious and cultural heritage. It speaks to the growing interest for Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, and for the research on women's organizations which testify to the strong presence of Jewish women in the emancipation movement. These women formed a sisterhood that fought to obtain rights that were until then only accorded to men, and they were deeply socially engaged in such a way that was crucial to the overall process of the integration of Jews into Italian society.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“We find hereby the heart of Miniati’s reasoning and work, according to which Jewish emancipation and female emancipation had eventually the same purpose. For such reasons, in a certain sense Italian Jewish women disregarded the expectations of the Jewish community, which did not see these two paths as intertwined … . Therefore, such an analysis is very useful to understand the will and ability of Italian Jewry to renew itself in the face of changing times between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” (Stefania Ragaù, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)
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Monica Miniati is an Independent Scholar in Florence, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Authors: Monica Miniati
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74053-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74052-8Published: 25 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74055-9Published: 26 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74053-5Published: 24 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 368
Topics: History of Italy, Jewish Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Gender Studies