The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History
The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History

Author: Renzo De Felice

Publisher: Enigma Books

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 0986376418

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

My aim was to explain in detail the facts surrounding Fascist anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews in Mussolini's Italy. Too many people in Italy and elsewhere underestimate or deny the tragic fate of European Jewry and anti-Semitism between the two world wars. A few short years ago anti-Semitism appeared defeated and reduced to a tiny group of fanatics. But now it seems to be regaining ground in its more political incarnation, probably the most dangerous one, because next to the religious, social and economic varieties it is the most insidious of all. The author occupies a central position among Italian historians specialized in modern Italy's political history. He broke new ground by first publishing this book in 1961 having obtained special permission to consult the files in the Archives of the Italian Jewish Communities concerning the Fascist regime's persecution of the Jews in Italy from 1938 to 1945. The book's release coincided with the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem that brought the Holocaust to the attention of other historians and to the world public. The English translation of the final 1993 edition was supported by a grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This paperback and electronic book edition is published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Jews in Mussolini's Italy
The Jews in Mussolini's Italy

Author: Michele Sarfatti

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780299217341

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides a comprehensive history from the rise of fascism in 1922 to its defeat in 1945. The author uses statistical evidence to document how the Italian social climate changed from relatively just to irredeemably prejudicial. He demonstrates that Rome did not simply follow the lead of Berlin.

Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism

Author: Shira Klein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1108337376

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II - during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture - led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. Italy's Jews experienced a century of dramatic changes, from emancipation in 1848, to the 1938 Racial Laws, wartime refuge in America and Palestine, and the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors. This cultural and social history draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs.

Between Mussolini and Hitler
Between Mussolini and Hitler

Author: Daniel Carpi

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global conflict. The Third Reich's attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief among them was Mussolini's decision to conduct a "parallel war" based on his own tactical and political agendas. Against this backdrop, Daniel Carpi depicts the fate of some 5000 Jews in Tunisia and as many as 30,000 in southeastern France, all of whom came under the aegis of the Italian Fascist regime early in the war. Many were unskilled immigrants: still others were political refugees, activists, or anti-fascist emigres, the fuoriusciti who fled oppression in Italy only to find themselves under its rule once again after the fall of France. While the Fascist regime disagreed with Hitler's final solution for the "Jewish problem," it also saw actions by Vichy French police or German security forces against Jews in Italian-controlled regions as an erosion of Rome's power. Thus, although these Jews were not free from oppression, Carpi shows that as long as Italy maintained control over them its consular officials were able to block the arrests and mass deportations occurring elsewhere.

The Italian Executioners
The Italian Executioners

Author: Simon Levis Sullam

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0691209200

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, the author presents an account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Author: Michael A. Livingston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 110702756X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Describes the history and nature of the Italian Race Laws during the period (1938-43) when Italy was independent of German control.

Benevolence and Betrayal
Benevolence and Betrayal

Author: Alexander Stille

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-04

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780312421533

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This history of Italy's Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust examines the lives of five Jewish families: the Ovazzas, who propered under Mussolini and whose patriarch became a prominent fascist; the Foas, whose children included both an antifascist activist and a Fascist Party member, the DiVerolis who struggled for survival in the ghetto; the Teglios, one of whom worked with the Catholic Church to save hundreds of Jews; and the Schonheits, who were sent to Buchenwald and Ravensbruck.

The Pope and Mussolini
The Pope and Mussolini

Author: David I. Kertzer

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 0198716168

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.

First Words
First Words

Author: Rosetta Loy

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1466878231

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist movingly chronicles her childhood in Rome during World War II, providing a rare account by a Catholic of Jewish persecution and Papal responsibility In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do Catholic intelligentsia of Rome. But her childhood world of velvet and lace, airy apartments, indulgent nannies, and summers in the mountains was also the world of Mussolini's fascist regime and the increasing oppression of Italian Jews. Loy interweaves the two Italys of her early years, shifting with powerful effect from a lyrical evocation of the many comforts of her class to the accumulation of laws stipulating where Jews were forbidden to travel and what they were not allowed to buy, eat, wear, and read. She reveals the willful ignorance of her own family as one by one their neighbors disappeared, and indicts journalists and intellectuals for their blindness and passivity. And with hard-won clarity, she presents a dispassionate record of the role of the Vatican and the Catholic leadership in the devastation of Italy's Jews. Written in crystalline prose, First Words offers an uncommon perspective on the Holocaust. In the process, Loy reveals one writer's struggle to reconcile her memories of a happy childhood with her adult knowledge that, hidden from her young eyes, one of the world's most horrifying tragedies was unfolding.