Monday23Apr 2018

Book Talk with Dr. Shira Klein

ITALY'S JEWS FROM EMANCIPATION TO FASCISM

Monday, April 23, 2018 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PST
2018-04-23 19:00 2018-04-23 21:00 America/Los_Angeles Book Talk with Dr. Shira Klein Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/47985 LL B3 Leatherby Libraries B3 - Center for American War Letters Ashley Cosgrove cosgrove@chapman.edu

Free to attend

Any questions? cosgrove@chapman.edu

LL B3

Leatherby Libraries B3 - Center for American War Letters

General Public

Everyone is welcome to attend

How did Italians 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 This talk draws on a wealth of unexplored sources, including original interviews and unpublished memoirs.

 

You can contact the event organizer, Ashley Cosgrove at cosgrove@chapman.edu.

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