Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule,

This book brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of Mussolini's Prime Ministership through the end of the Second World War. Challenging the myth of Italian benevolence during the fascist period, authors investigate the treatment of Jews by Italians during the Holocaust, and the native versus foreign roots of Italian fascist anti-Semitism. Essays collected in this volume each illustrate a different aspect of Italian Jewry under fascist and Nazi rule. Areas of inquiry include the role of the Catholic Church with special reference to Pope Pius XII, Mussolini's attitude and anti-Jewish policies leading to the onset of the 1938 Italian racial laws, and the Italian popular reactions to anti-Jewish persecution. Included also is an examination of cover images and articles from the Italian racist newspaper La Difesa della Razza intended to lay bare the influence of the Italian media on the general Italian public.

Introduction
Italy Jewry from Liberalism to Fascism
The double-bind of Italian Jews: acceptance and assimilation
Italian Jewish identity from the Risorgimento to the racial laws
Mussolini and the Jews on the eve of the march on Rome
Rise of Racial Persecution
Characteristics and objectives of the anti-Jewish racial laws in Fascist Italy, 1938-1943
The beginnings of racial persecution: the exclusion of Jews from Italian academies
The damage to Italian culture: Jewish university professors in Fascist Italy and after, 1938-1946
Building a racial state: images of the Jew in the illustrated Fascist magazine, La Difesa della Razza, 1938-1943
The impact of anti-Jewish legislation on the everyday life and the response of Italian Jews (1938-1943)
The children of Villa Emma at Nonantola, 1942-1943
Anti-Jewish persecution and Italian society
Catastrophe - The German Occupation, 1943-1945
The Shoah in Italy: some aspects of its history and characteristics
The Mollhausen telegram, the Kapler decodes, and the roundup and deportation of Roman Jewry: the new documents, 2000-2001
The persecution of Jews in two regions of occupied Northern Italy, 1943-1945: Operationszone Alpenvorland and Operationszone Adriatisches Kustenland
The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
The papal response to Nazi and Fascist antisemitism: From Pius VI to Pius XII
Pius XII and the rescue of Jews in Italy: evidence of a papal directive
Aftermath: Contemporary Italy and Holocaust Memory
The rescued and the rescuers in private and public memories
The return of the repressed: contemporary filmmakers confront Italian Holocaust history
The secret histories of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful
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Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922â€“1945

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