This article aims to describe the relationship between Jews and Catholics against the backdrop of the rise of the national state and the process of political emancipation in the long nineteenth century. In doing so, it attempts to place the overlooked Italian context in the background of both national and transnational history, focusing on themes that would become relevant and reiterated until the rise of Fascism and Nazism. It argues that modern antisemitism was embedded in a web of discourses and representations that were deeply ingrained in Christian cultures, even when a secularizing society emerged. Catholic antisemitism, therefore, both exploited and rearranged old theological tropes with a new modern language capable to adjust to economic and political changes.
L'ostilita' antiebraica nel mondo cattolico: un percorso storiografico e politico
Cristiana Facchini
2020
Abstract
This article aims to describe the relationship between Jews and Catholics against the backdrop of the rise of the national state and the process of political emancipation in the long nineteenth century. In doing so, it attempts to place the overlooked Italian context in the background of both national and transnational history, focusing on themes that would become relevant and reiterated until the rise of Fascism and Nazism. It argues that modern antisemitism was embedded in a web of discourses and representations that were deeply ingrained in Christian cultures, even when a secularizing society emerged. Catholic antisemitism, therefore, both exploited and rearranged old theological tropes with a new modern language capable to adjust to economic and political changes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
