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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in legal history (Cambridge University Press)Publisher: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107250253
  • 1107250250
  • 9781139226486
  • 1139226487
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fascists and the Jews of ItalyDDC classification:
  • 342.4508/73 23
LOC classification:
  • KKH2467.M56 L58 2013eb
Other classification:
  • HIS010000
Online resources:
Contents:
1 -- Introduction: On the Historical Significance of the Leggi Razziali 2 -- Legislation: Race, Religion, and the "Italian Model" of Antisemitism 3 -- Administration: Expansion, Evasion, and the Problem of Institutional Conflict 4 -- Adjudication: Theory, Practice, and the Role of Judicial Personality 5 -- The Daily Plebiscite: How Local Officials and Ordinary Italians Responded to the Race Laws 6 -- From Perpetrators to Victims: The Question of Jewish Responses 7 -- Conclusion: Implications of the Race Laws for Italy, the Legal Profession, and the Study of Racial Statutes.
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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"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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1 -- Introduction: On the Historical Significance of the Leggi Razziali 2 -- Legislation: Race, Religion, and the "Italian Model" of Antisemitism 3 -- Administration: Expansion, Evasion, and the Problem of Institutional Conflict 4 -- Adjudication: Theory, Practice, and the Role of Judicial Personality 5 -- The Daily Plebiscite: How Local Officials and Ordinary Italians Responded to the Race Laws 6 -- From Perpetrators to Victims: The Question of Jewish Responses 7 -- Conclusion: Implications of the Race Laws for Italy, the Legal Profession, and the Study of Racial Statutes.

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