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MEMORIES OF JEWISH LIFE: FROM ITALY TO JERUSALEM, By Augusto Segre - Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN-10
- 0803213786
- Book Title
- Memories of Jewish Life: From Italy to Jerusalem, 1918-1960
- Genre
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- ISBN
- 9780803213784
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Memories of Jewish Life : from Italy to Jerusalem, 1918-1960
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Holocaust, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Jewish
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 542 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803213786
ISBN-13
9780803213784
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66014422
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
542 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Memories of Jewish Life : from Italy to Jerusalem, 1918-1960
Subject
Holocaust, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Jewish
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-010259
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Segre's fascinating narrative enables us to understand some things about the Italian Jewish community, especially its horrible experiences just before and during World War II. Our understanding of and appreciation for Italian Jews are greatly enhanced by this fine book."-Morton I. Teicher, National Jewish Post & Opinion, "The oral, conversational style of the original Italian has been masterfully rendered by Siporin''s translated prose, and readers will delight in the discovery that this important book, which sheds light on a little known community and a very dark chapter in Italy''s past, proves moreover to be a most enjoyable reading experience as the memoirs of an individual become the collective history of an entire community."Rachele Longo Lavorato,Shofar, "The oral, conversational style of the original Italian has been masterfully rendered by Siporin's translated prose, and readers will delight in the discovery that this important book, which sheds light on a little known community and a very dark chapter in Italy's past, proves moreover to be a most enjoyable reading experience as the memoirs of an individual become the collective history of an entire community."-Rachele Longo Lavorato, Shofar, "The oral, conversational style of the original Italian has been masterfully rendered by Siporin''s translated prose, and readers will delight in the discovery that this important book, which sheds light on a little known community and a very dark chapter in Italy''s past, proves moreover to be a most enjoyable reading experience as the memoirs of an individual become the collective history of an entire community."-Rachele Longo Lavorato, Shofar, "Segre''s fascinating narrative enables us to understand some things about the Italian Jewish community, especially its horrible experiences just before and during World War II. Our understanding of and appreciation for Italian Jews are greatly enhanced by this fine book."-Morton I. Teicher, National Jewish Post & Opinion, "In this beautifully written book, newly translated into English, Augusto Segre recounts his life experiences with insight, philosophy, and gracefully told anecdotes. . . . The traditional religious and vibrant working-class Jewish community that Segre describes, alas, no longer exists but will live forever in the pages of this wonderful book."- Jewish Book World, "In this beautifully written book, newly translated into English, Augusto Segre recounts his life experiences with insight, philosophy, and gracefully told anecdotes. . . . The traditional religious and vibrant working-class Jewish community that Segre describes, alas, no longer exists but will live forever in the pages of this wonderful book."Jewish Book World, "Segre''s fascinating narrative enables us to understand some things about the Italian Jewish community, especially its horrible experiences just before and during World War II. Our understanding of and appreciation for Italian Jews are greatly enhanced by this fine book."Morton I. Teicher,National Jewish Post & Opinion
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
945/.632004924 B
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations List of Maps Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Once Upon a Time 2. The Rabbi's Family 3. It's Not Always Easy to Become a Rabbi 4. The Community Council 5. First Experiences 6. Casalese Anti-Zionism 7. Jewish Festivals and Solemnities 8. Community and Family Life 9. Farewell Visit 10. Rome, Friends, and Teachers 11. Jewish Rome 12. Students and Politicians 13. From Police Stations to the Secretaryship of the Union 14. The Racial Campaign Breaks Out 15. Dante Lattes Leaves 16. Working with Raffaele Cantoni 17. Who Leaves and Who Stays 18. I Return Home 19. Asti and Moncalvo 20. Commuter 21. The Nazi Invasion 22. Partisan Life 23. April 25 24. The Prisoner Emerling 25. Toward a Normal Life 26. Return to Rome 27. The State of Israel Is Reborn 28. New Activities of the Zionist Federation 29. Sailing for Israel 30. Israel at War 31. A Happy Encounter 32. The Slansky Case 33. Life Goes On Notes Glossary References Index
Synopsis
In this lyrical memoir, translated for the first time into English, noted Jewish historian, author, translator, and activist Augusto Segre not only recounts his rich life experiences but also evokes the changing world of Italian Jewry in the twentieth century. Raised in the traditional Jewish community of Casale Monferrato in the former ghetto, Segre depicts the changes wrought on his people by emancipation, fascism, world wars, and the Holocaust. Segre was a vocal opponent of Italian fascism and a combatant in Italy's partisan war against the Nazis. With the help of Italian peasants, he and his family spent eighteen months evading German and Italian fascist soldiers during the German occupation of Italy. Segre also was an ardent Zionist who helped refugees escape to Israel and ultimately immigrated himself in 1979. He spent three months in Israel in 1948, chronicling Israel's War of Independence. With an ethnographic eye, Segre interweaves his own memories with those of his rabbi father and uses newspapers, public documents, and letters to reveal the shared emotions and moods of a people and the impact the greatest events in European and Jewish history had on them all. The trend of Italian Jews toward assimilation was evident in Segre's time, and an awareness of it pervades this work. Memories of Jewish Life provides a rare glimpse into a traditional, religious and vibrant working-class Jewish community that no longer exists., Augusto Segre recounts his rich life experiences and evokes the changing world of Italian Jewry in the twentieth century
LC Classification Number
DS135.I9S43713 2008
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