1st Edition

Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943–1951 Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity

By Chiara Renzo Copyright 2024
226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe. It explores the Jewish DPs’ daily life in the refugee camps and what this experience of displacement meant to them. This book sheds light on the dilemmas... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms

List of figures and tables

Notes on transliteration and Hebrew terms

Introduction

Map

Chapter 1: The liberation of southern Italy and the first core of Jewish refugees

Chapter 2: Living in the refugee camps, longing for "a new, quiet, and safe home"

Chapter 3: Plural identities, one shared goal: rebuilding home and family in the refugee camps

Chapter 4: Confronting the past while building the future: long waits, responsibilities, unexpected outcomes

Conclusion

Tables

Glossary

Archives

Index

Biography

Chiara Renzo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and teaches Migration and Media at the University of Florence. Her research deals with different aspects of Jewish migrations from the Holocaust to the decolonization.