What happened to the university teachers who were expelled after the racial laws of 1938? And what about the more numerous and less known unstructured scholars who were suspended from service? What did the students who were denied university enrolment or the new graduates with no prospects for their future do? The university archives tell us nothing about this; the general aim was for scholars and students who were declared of "Jewish race" to be cancelled and forgotten. It was not a small number of them who decided to leave Italy. What were their paths and help networks? How were they treated abroad? How much did Italian culture suffer from those losses? After the war, did universities try to restore them? The expatriates who returned could have brought new knowledge and ideas, but many never returned. Why? By focusing on the relevant case of Florence, the volume investigates the minimized phenomenon of intellectual emigration for political and racial reasons. A recent past in need of consideration and reflection.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6464-5591
Book Title
L’emigrazione intellettuale dall’Italia fascista
Book Subtitle
Studenti e studiosi ebrei dell’Università di Firenze in fuga all’estero
Editors
Patrizia Guarnieri
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
178
Publication Year
2019
Copyright Information
© 2019 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-874-7
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-873-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-874-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-875-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-070-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986