Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Francesca Bregoli & Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti & Guri Schwarz

Author:Francesca Bregoli & Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti & Guri Schwarz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319894058
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The case of Sonne brings out two significant issues. The first concerns the Jewish support of the Fascist regime, which is most evident among those who held important institutional roles. The second concerns the scholarship on religion and Judaism in its transnational and Fascist contexts, its legacy, and the relationship with other traditions, Catholic and secular alike.

2 “A Jew Among the (Catholic) Modernists”: A Religious Turn?

My family had been detached from Jewish religious practice for two generations, on my father’s side even for three, since at the beginning of the nineteenth century my father’s maternal grandparents had welcomed the anti-confessional and humanitarian principles of the Enlightenment, and those had been transmitted in their entirety to my father, quite modernized by the political and economic Liberalism typical of the Historical Right. […] And thus, between the end of the gymnasium and the beginning of the lyceum, I started to teach myself some Hebrew and immersed myself in the Old and New Testament. I avidly searched for any sort of books about religion and history of religions, relying above all on those that I found in the family library, collected mostly by a great-great-grandfather and a great-uncle of mine, which faithfully reflected the development [of religious themes] from eighteenth-century Enlightenment toward nineteenth-century Positivism, passing through the experience of Romanticism—three phases meaningfully marked by three “lives of Jesus,” which I found in our library and which I devoured: those by Baron D’Holbach, David Friedrich Strauss, and Ernest Renan.44

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