The Ambivalence of Italian Antisemitism: Fascism, Nationalism, and Racism in Trieste
The film Life Is Beautiful presented a fantastic vision of the Italian experience of the Holocaust. Emphasizing Italians' mischievous love of life and inherent humanity amidst violence perpetrated by others—generally Germans or misguided Fascists—it perpetuated a stereotype of “good Italians” t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2002
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2002, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 376-401 |
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| Summary: | The film Life Is Beautiful presented a fantastic vision of the Italian experience of the Holocaust. Emphasizing Italians' mischievous love of life and inherent humanity amidst violence perpetrated by others—generally Germans or misguided Fascists—it perpetuated a stereotype of “good Italians” that pervades the popular media and infuses scholarship as well. This image, combined with the fact that eighty‐five percent of Italian Jews survived the Holocaust, has helped Italians to avoid censure for involvement in the persecution of Jews. Yet Fascist racial policies and attitudes had a devastating effect on Italy's Jewish communities. In the case of Trieste, by May 1945 only ten percent of the city's prewar Jewish population remained there. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/16.3.376 |