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Images of Italian Jewish Emancipation

An Analysis of Family Photographs after the Opening of the Roman Ghetto in 1870

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ID2610869
AuthorsEdna Barromi-Perlman (0000-0001-6405-8525, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume29
Issue1
Pages120-160
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJewish Social Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/jss.00005
OpenAlexW4393412224
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This study analyzes late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs in a family album belonging to Roman Jews. The album was compiled at a crucial moment for Italy and for Italian Jews: after the wake of Italy's national unification. For many Roman Jews the risorgimento and Italian unification in 1870 resulted in liberation from crushing poverty, disease, and abuses under the papal state. These years coincided with the invention and development of photography. This article explores how Jewish emancipation and liberation from ghetto life, alongside the rise of photography, influenced the construction of images and photographic portraits of Roman Jews through the analysis of one family album

Archaeology · Art · Emancipation · Judaism · Political science · Politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year1.5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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