Issue 8 | Focus – The Italian-Jewish Writer Laura Orvieto (1876-1955) between Intellectual …

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The present article focuses on Laura Orvieto’s intellectual development,  asking about the chances, but also the barriers in the life of the sophisticated Italian-Jewish writer. Based on documents from the Orvieto archives in Florence, the Rosselli archives in Turin, as well as selected writings by Laura Orvieto, the contribution examines the protagonist’s access to scholarship and learning in liberal, post-emancipated Italy, where Orvieto gained...

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Issue 8 | Focus – Practices of Cultural Nationalism. …

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This essay focuses on Alfonso Pacifici, leader at the forefront of the Jewish cultural revival movement in Italy in the first decades of the XX century. His figure and his philosophy represent a privileged focus through which it is possible to identify and follow the evolution of various intertwined aspects of the Jewish experience in post-emancipated Italy, such as:  the elaboration of the Kulturdebatte within Italian Zionism; the development of...

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Issue 8 | Reviews – La vie juive ? Berlin apr?s 1945

In Berlin, the modern era for the Jews started in 1671, when the great elector of Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm, allowed fifty wealthy families from Vienna’s expelled Jewish community to settle in Berlin and the Margravate Brandenburg, in return for heavy taxes and costly residence permits. Over the next few centuries, from Moses Mendelssohn to the end...

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L’Espill | 50 (2015)

The European crisis. Europe as an idea and as a project today

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A History of Infanticide in Britain, c.1600-Present, by Anne-Marie Kilday

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Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet, by Robert J. Mayhew

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Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland, 1750-1850, ed. Joanna Innes and Mark Philp

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Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation), Louisiana, 1750-1860, by Ibrahima Seck

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Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age, by James A. Secord

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Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global Contexts, by David Bebbington

Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/130/546/1262?rss=1