Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume terzo

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ISBN 13 : 8852063919
Total Pages : 1157 pages
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Download or read book Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume terzo written by Riccardo Calimani and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nel terzo e conclusivo volume della sua Storia degli ebrei italiani, Riccardo Calimani ripercorre due secoli, il XIX e il XX, cruciali per il destino della comunità ebraica del nostro Paese, disegnando un complesso itinerario in cui si susseguono e si intrecciano la chiusura dei ghetti, la progressiva estensione dei diritti civili, un lento ma costante processo di integrazione e, quasi in parallelo, l'insorgere di un nuovo antisemitismo di stampo razzista, che culminerà nella tragedia delle cosiddette «leggi razziali» e della Shoah. All'inizio dell'Ottocento, in un'Italia ancora in bilico tra Rivoluzione e Restaurazione e ampiamente frammentata, si manifestano i primi, timidi segnali di emancipazione delle minoranze ebraiche. Poi, dopo l'unità, il posto degli ebrei nella società muta radicalmente, perché essi iniziano a partecipare con grande passione alla costruzione di un Paese cui sentono di appartenere a pieno titolo, dopo il tributo di sangue versato sui campi di battaglia del Risorgimento e della Grande Guerra. Nel contempo la Chiesa di Pio IX, che addebita l'oltraggio di Porta Pia a un complotto di forze anticattoliche, ridà fiato alla propaganda antigiudaica e rilancia contro gli ebrei le infamanti accuse di deicidio e di omicidio rituale, fornendo nuovi alibi e argomenti all'antisemitismo moderno. Ma la pagina nera - vergognosa e incancellabile - della storia degli ebrei italiani sono le cosiddette «leggi razziali» promulgate dal regime fascista nel 1938 sulla base di risibili teorie pseudoscientifiche, che sancirono di fatto la totale esclusione degli ebrei dal corpo della società e dalla vita civile. Accolte da principio con indifferenza, e senza che il papa pronunciasse un'esplicita parola di condanna, quando dopo l'8 settembre 1943 tali leggi significarono persecuzione, deportazione e morte nei campi di sterminio, molti italiani e una parte rilevante del clero si riscattarono creando, a rischio della propria vita, una vasta rete di solidarietà che aiutò e protesse i perseguitati. Della propria complicità nella Shoah, il nostro Paese avrebbe preso coscienza con decenni di colpevole ritardo - e grazie soprattutto allo straordinario contributo dato da tanti intellettuali ebrei, a cominciare da Primo Levi, alla riflessione sul valore della memoria - confermando una volta di più che la storia degli ebrei italiani è una storia esemplare di lotta per la sopravvivenza civile e culturale e per la difesa della dignità umana.

Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume primo

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ISBN 13 : 885203756X
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume primo written by Riccardo Calimani and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La storia bimillenaria delle comunità ebraiche in Italia è la straordinaria avventura, tanto tormentata quanto poco nota, di una minoranza (poche decine di migliaia di persone) che ha saputo radicarsi capillarmente in tutto il territorio del nostro paese, dalle Alpi alla Sicilia, dal Friuli alla Sardegna. E che, malgrado le umiliazioni e le vessazioni subite da parte delle autorità politiche ed ecclesiastiche locali, è riuscita a salvaguardare sempre le proprie tradizioni e la propria identità culturale senza isolarsi e rinchiudersi in se stessa, ma anzi partecipando attivamente alla vita sociale ed economica dei luoghi in cui si è insediata. Di questa singolare vicenda, che rappresenta un caso unico nel panorama europeo, Riccardo Calimani ricostruisce qui una prima ampia parte: dalla libera alleanza degli ebrei con la Roma repubblicana e dai secoli dell'esilio, dopo la distruzione di Gerusalemme (70 e.v.) voluta dall'imperatore romano Tito, sino al rimescolamento delle varie comunità ebraiche del Vecchio Continente provocato dalla loro espulsione dalla Penisola iberica alla fine del XV secolo. Il vero punto di svolta di questo complesso itinerario è costituito dall¿editto di Costantino (313), che, legittimando la cristianità, inaugura la lunga stagione dell'incontro- scontro tra giudaismo della diaspora e Chiesa di Roma. Un rapporto ambivalente che si riflette nella costante oscillazione nel trattamento da essa riservato per tutto il Medioevo (e oltre) agli ebrei, condannati come popolo maledetto per non aver riconosciuto in Cristo il messia, e nel contempo protetti in quanto testimoni della verità del Vecchio Testamento, secondo la lettura teologica agostiniana. Nell'ambito di questo paradosso trovano spazio l'aperta discriminazione, sancita dal IV Concilio Lateranense (1215) con l'imposizione della rotella come segno distintivo, e le ricorrenti persecuzioni, di volta in volta fomentate dalle infamanti accuse di avvelenare i pozzi per seminare la pestilenza, o da quelle di praticare l¿infanticidio ritu ale o dalla forsennata propaganda antigiudaica dei frati predicatori. Ma anche atteggiamenti di benevola tolleranza che hanno consentito agli ebrei, benché esclusi dalle corporazioni gravati da pesanti tributi e da uno status giuridico penalizzante, di raggiungere l'eccellenza nell¿arte medica e di svolgere una funzione finanziaria (il prestito su pegno) decisiva sia per l'economia locale sia per le dissestate finanze dei diversi sovrani. In questa monumentale opera di ricomposizione delle tracce disperse della presenza ebraica in ogni città, paese e borgo d'Italia, che ha come sfondo tutti i più grandiosi e drammatici scenari (le crociate, l'Inquisizione, la nascita e il crollo degli imperi) della storia dell'Occidente, Calimani individua nella ricchezza della tradizione giudaica la forza che non solo ha preservato lidentità minacciata degli esuli, ma ha alimentato un dialogo reciprocamente fecondo con la cultura italiana ed europea.

Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume secondo

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ISBN 13 : 8852048758
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Storia degli ebrei italiani - volume secondo written by Riccardo Calimani and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In questo secondo volume della sua monumentale opera di ricostruzione della presenza ebraica in Italia, Riccardo Calimani ripercorre i tre secoli cruciali che vanno dall'espulsione nel 1492 degli ebrei dalla Penisola iberica e da tutti i domini spagnoli alla Rivoluzione francese (1789) e all'Impero napoleonico, fino alla Restaurazione di inizio Ottocento. Una storia contrassegnata da una radicale redistribuzione territoriale degli insediamenti ebraici - presenti, dal Cinquecento, quasi esclusivamente nelle regioni centrosettentrionali del nostro Paese - e, dal punto di vista politico e religioso, dalla poderosa influenza dell'Inquisizione e dai rigori della Controriforma. Punto di svolta decisivo di questa fase della storia della comunità ebraica italiana è l'istituzione del ghetto romano («il serraglio degli ebrei») sancita dalla bolla di Paolo IV Cum nimis absurdum del 1555. Una scelta di segregazione, quella del ghetto, ideata a Venezia nel 1516, che si sarebbe estesa da Roma a numerose città della Penisola. E se è vero che fu applicata in modi diversi dai principi e signori locali, che agivano in funzione della loro autonomia dalla Santa Sede o per semplice convenienza di potere, a rimanere invariato fu invece il rapporto contraddittorio tra mondo cristiano e mondo ebraico, in bilico tra bisogni e interessi concreti (i banchi di prestito, le tasse e le contribuzioni forzose) e le ricorrenti pulsioni teologiche contro il «popolo maledetto», sfociate spesso in comportamenti discriminatori e violenti: prediche coatte, battesimi di minori senza l'assenso dei genitori, roghi di libri, espulsioni attuate o solo minacciate. Emblema di tale ambivalenza è la controversa figura del «marrano»: ebreo, costretto alla conversione suo malgrado, legato alle proprie origini e alla pro- pria identità culturale e religiosa, non fu ben accetto né dai cristiani né dagli ebrei e diventò, con le sue molteplici identità dovute al contatto con genti e terre straniere, sia un formidabile intermediario economico e culturale nell'area del Mediterraneo, sia «un ambiguo fantasma capace di turbare il sonno di tanti ebrei e cristiani in Europa». Lungo i tre secoli raccontati da Calimani si snodano le peripezie di un gruppo esiguo di individui che fu sempre al centro di eventi storici epocali, nel doppio ruolo di vittima predestinata e di attivo protagonista della vita culturale ed economica del nostro Paese, ai suoi primi passi verso la modernità. Un'avventura, quella della comunità ebraica italiana, irta di pericoli e di contraddizioni, ma che rivela una sorprendente e insopprimibile vitalità.

Storia degli ebrei italiani

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ISBN 13 : 9788804627043
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Storia degli ebrei italiani: Nel XIX e nel XX secolo

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Storia degli ebrei italiani in Italia

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Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo

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The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 3

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ISBN 13 : 9780812218657
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Renaissance Humanism, Volume 3

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ISBN 13 : 1512805777
Total Pages : 712 pages
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La Grande Italia

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ISBN 13 : 9780299228101
Total Pages : 424 pages
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An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period — Volume II

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ISBN 13 : 3030383318
Total Pages : 317 pages
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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500–1815

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ISBN 13 : 1108138217
Total Pages : 1927 pages
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The Jews in Umbria, Volume 1 (1245-1435)

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ISBN 13 : 9004509313
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Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3

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ISBN 13 : 3205217357
Total Pages : 1454 pages
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Download or read book Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3 written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1: Life Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist. Vol. 2: Works The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again. Vol. 3: Survival Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerges is that Giotto's impact cannot be reduced simply to the introduction of the study of nature. Rather, his art was involved in the development of pictorial idioms that were attuned to the skills and interests of their audiences. The new approaches in his painting contributed in particular to the possibility of examining and communicating psychological, narrative and allegorical content of great complexity outside the media of language and text, which not only changed the face of European art but certainly contributed to the intellectual opening of Western societies.

The Wiener Library Bulletin

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 3 (1392-1414)

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Giotto the Painter. Volume 3: Survival

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ISBN 13 : 3205217330
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Download or read book Giotto the Painter. Volume 3: Survival written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerges is that Giotto's impact cannot be reduced simply to the introduction of the study of nature. Rather, his art was involved in the development of pictorial idioms that were attuned to the skills and interests of their audiences. The new approaches in his painting contributed in particular to the possibility of examining and communicating psychological, narrative and allegorical content of great complexity outside the media of language and text, which not only changed the face of European art but certainly contributed to the intellectual opening of Western societies.