Monday, July 7: Italian Jews and the Risorgimento
This lecture was a continuation of one given a day or two before. The first lecture took up the topic of Italian Jews and the Risorgimento. Most Jews were solidly behind the effort to unify Italy as they looked forward to being full participants in a modern nation-state. But such full participation was complicated. Sullam went back to Momigliani, who had argued that the integration of Italian Jews into a modern nation-state was more or less the same process whereby people from various regions of the peninsula, most of whom had strong regional loyalties, would eventually see themselves integrated into a united Italy. In retrospect, Momigliani underestimated the conflicts and compromises for Jews integrating into a new united Italy, as events of his own life illustrate.

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Tuesday, July 8: Jews and Fascism

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