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This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy. Drawing together seven diverse essays from both established and emerging scholars across a range of fields, this book examines multiple... Read Full Overview

Introduction.- Alessandro Carrieri.- Part I.- Music, Antisemitism and Persecution.- 2. Italian Jews and the Race Laws of 1938 by Michele Sarfatti.- 3. La Scala, the Jews and Erich Kleiber. An Anti-Semitic Episode of December 1938 by Annalisa Capristo.- 4. Antisemitism and Propaganda... Read Full Overview