Ferrara degli Uberti, C;
(2018)
Sperimentazione e normatività. Periodici ebraici italiani e letteratura fra Otto e Novecento.
Annali d'Italianistica
, 36
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Abstract
This essay analyzes the structure and function of the literary texts published by the main Jewish periodicals in Liberal Italy. It explores them as part of a polifonic conversation, an experimental debate on identity, a redefinition of boundaries, an endless search for a balance between integration and preservation of Jewish peculiarities. This textual production, of low literary quality and mainly written by rabbis and teachers, had a clear normative and moral character: it depicted models of positive and negative behavior, intending to sketch the ideal modern Italian Jew/Jewess. Literature, or better domestic fiction, allowed for a consciously vague but insisted reference to the existence of a collective Jewish identity that should be preserved after emancipation, through – among other things – the condemnation of intermarriage.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Sperimentazione e normatività. Periodici ebraici italiani e letteratura fra Otto e Novecento |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.ibiblio.org/annali/toc/2018.html |
Language: | Italian |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Italian Jewish history, Periodicals, Literature, Integration, Race |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044140 |
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