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Publication Date: November 1999
Publisher: Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women
Author(s): Micaela Procaccia
Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics; Social conditions
Keywords: History; Women; Culture
Type: Other
Abstract:
The author presents an outline of the history of Jewish women in Italy, going back to their involvement with Jewish and Christian courts in the late Middle Ages. Highlights include womenÂ’s struggles against forced conversion, anti-Semitism, and the creation of the Italian ghetto; womenÂ’s involvement in GaribaldiÂ’s Resorgimento; the early popularization of the Bat Mitzvah celebration; the first Italian Jewish woman to have a rabbinic education; womenÂ’s role in the anti-Nazi resistance and later in Holocaust awareness; and finally womenÂ’s active leadership in the modern Italian Jewish community.