The Fascists and the Jews of Italy : Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938-1943 /

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy : Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938-1943 /

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Author / Creator:	Livingston, Michael A., author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014. ©2014
Description:	x, 267 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in legal history Studies in legal history.
Subject:	Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Italy -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Italy -- History -- 20th century. Antisemitism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century. Fascism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century. Antisemitism. Ethnic relations. Fascism. Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. Race discrimination -- Law and legislation. Italy -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century. Italy. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9799445

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ISBN:	9781107027565 (hardback) 110702756X (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
Summary:	"From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws. Notwithstanding later rationalizations, the laws were enforced and administered with a high degree of severity and resulted in serious, and in some cases permanent, damage to the Italian Jewish community. Written from the perspective of an American legal scholar, this book constitutes the first truly comprehensive survey of the Race Laws in the English language. Based on an exhaustive review of Italian legal, administrative, and judicial sources, together with archives of the Italian Jewish community, Professor Michael A. Livingston demonstrates the zeal but also the occasional ambivalence and contradictions with which the Race Laws were applied and assimilated by the Italian legal order and ordinary citizens. Although frequently depressing, the history of the Race Laws also involves numerous examples of personal courage and idealism, and provides a useful and timely study of what happens when otherwise decent people are confronted with an evil and unjust legal order"--Provided by publisher.

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