{"product_id":"the-golden-age-of-italian-jews-1848-1938-paperback","title":"The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGino Segrè\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fluent, personal account of the role of Italian Jews in the making of modern Europe.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With this fine book, Gino Segrè weaves together the history of the golden era for Italian Jews, dating from its optimistic beginning in Piedmont in 1848 to its bitter end, less than 100 years later, with the rise of fascism and the 1938 passage of the Racial Laws. Written with his customary style and warmth, sense of history and penetrating irony, and using the often-moving stories of individual lives, many of them drawn from his own distinguished family tree, Segrè brings to this story of his own deep and abiding roots, an important cultural and political history with many lessons for our own times.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Judith R. Goodstein, author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein's Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of Italian Jews \u003c\/i\u003eby Gino Segrè covers the nine decades from 1848 to 1938 during which Italian Jews rose from their socially constrained ghetto life to acquire full civil rights and eventually to occupy commanding positions in Italian society. Never more than one tenth of one percent of the total Italian population, Jews became army generals, mayors of major cities, prime ministers, foreign secretaries, and high-ranking university professors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegrè explains what made this meteoric rise possible, relating how Jews negotiated their futures with a three-step process: seizing opportunities to gain acceptance, excelling in their trades and professions, and often successfully assimilating into the upper strata of Italian society. By the early twentieth century, Jews were integral to Italian life, but all of their progress came to a sudden cataclysmic end in 1938 with the institution of Italy's racial laws by the fascist government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegrè includes several illustrative anecdotes from his family's history. One tells of his great-grandfather Marco Treves, who was born in 1814. Treves became an architect, a career path previously closed to Jews: he worked in Rome and Paris before settling in Florence. There, ever a pious Jew, he reached the pinnacle of his career, designing the city's grand new synagogue and cemetery. His favorite daughter, the author's grandmother Amelia Treves Segrè, was caught in a 1943 Nazi roundup in Rome and transported to Auschwitz where she died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear and concise, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of Italian Jews\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the dramatic rise and brutal fall of Jews in Italy. It is a poignant and important story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGino Segrè \u003c\/b\u003ehas authored five books on the history of science: \u003ci\u003eA Matter of Degrees\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eFaust in Copenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Geniuses\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eThe Pope of Physics\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) with Bettina Hoerlin, and \u003ci\u003eUnearthing Fermi's Geophysics\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) with John Stack. \u003ci\u003eThe Pope of Physics\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by Bloomberg; \u003ci\u003eFaust in Copenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the\u003ci\u003e LA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book prize. Segrè was born in Florence, Italy and raised there and in New York City. He is a former chair and professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania and has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Bettina Hoerlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 181\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63619760161117,"sku":"9781589882058","price":28.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/9wQTuzPcAi9781589882058.webp?v=1772031298","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/the-golden-age-of-italian-jews-1848-1938-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}