FT-57528-10 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Franklin H. Adler | Fascist Italy's Campaign Against the Jews | 5/1/2010 - 9/30/2010 | $6,000.00 | Franklin | H. | Adler | | | | Macalester College | St. Paul | MN | 55105-1899 | USA | 2010 | Political Science, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
The NEH Summer Stipend will be devoted to archival research at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome, Italy. I will examine documents of Italian fascist organizations and government offices implicated in the evolution of anti-Semitic policy prior to and through the Second World War. I offer a bold, empirically grounded thesis which traces how Italian antipathy toward Jews was based primarily on class, instead of more familiar origins in religion, race or biology. This research will culminate in a book-length manuscript which synthesizes and draws conclusions from nearly a decade of study of Italian Fascism. |