Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520078406)

Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literature of that period contradicts the popular belief that anti-Semitism simply did not exist in Italy until late in the Fascist period.

Author: Lynn M. Gunzberg
ISBN-10: 0520078403
ISBN-13: 9780520078406
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/30/1992
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.32w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/1992