Between ‘Spirit’ and ‘Science’
The Emergence of Italian Fascist Antisemitism through the 1920s and 1930s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salvatore Garau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 37-58 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2009.11087234 |
| OpenAlex | W2526054638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This study challenges the belief that Italian Fascist antisemitism appeared only in 1938, as an imitation of German racialism, instead revealing and analysing the far earlier emergence of antisemitism within specific sectors of Italian Fascism from the early 1920s and demonstrating its derivation from native traditions of Catholic and nationalist anti-Jewish thought. It then outlines the combination of internal and external factors that caused antisemitism to spread from certain internal strands to the rest of Italian Fascism in the 1930s. Finally, it examines more closely the dispute that arose within Fascism between those who advocated a biological form of racism, and those who instead accorded it a cultural or ‘spiritual’ basis
Antisemitism · German · Imitation · Jewish question · Judaism · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Theology · European history and politics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |