Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

Martin Baumeister is Director of the German Historical Institute in Rome.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction

Martin Baumeister, Philipp Lenhard, Ruth Nattermann



Section 1: Concepts and Perspectives



Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Italy and Germany beyond National History

Amerigo Caruso



Chapter 2. Rethinking Nation and Family

Ilaria Porciani



Section 2: Family and Nation



Chapter 3. The Morenos between Family and Nation: Notes on the History of a Bourgeois Mediterranean Jewish family (1850–1912)

Marcella Simoni



Chapter 4. Portrait of a “Political Lady”: Family Ties and National Activism around 1848 in the Italian and German States

Giulia Frontoni



Chapter 5. Emancipation, Religious Affiliation, and Family Status around 1900

Angelika Schaser



Section 3: Religion and Education



Chapter 6. The Legacy of Adam and Eve: Morality and Gender in Jewish “Catechisms” in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Philipp Lenhard



Chapter 7. The Transformation of Jewish Education in Nineteenth-Century Italy: The Meaning of “Catechisms”

Silvia Guetta



Chapter 8. Religion and Nation: Catholic and Protestant Female Education and Cultural Models in Germany (1871–1914)

Sylvia Schraut



Chapter 9. Women for the Homeland: Comparing Catholic and Protestant Female Education in Italy (1848–1908)

Liviana Gazzetta



Section 4: Politics of Women’s Emancipation



Chapter 10. Denomination Matters: Strategies of Self-Designation of the German Women’s Movement

Anne-Laure Briatte



Chapter 11. German and Italian Advocates for Women’s Emancipation at the International Congress for Women’s Achievements and Women’s Endeavors in Berlin (1896)

Magdalena Gehring



Section 5: Patriotism and Gender



Chapter 12. Historian Between Two Fatherlands: Robert Davidsohn and World War I

Martin Baumeister



Chapter 13. Between Motherhood and Patriotic Duty: Marital Correspondence as a Key Source for the Understanding of French-Jewish Women’s Perspectives on World War I

Marie-Christin Lux



Section 6: War and Violence



Chapter 14. "An Expression of Horror and Sadness"? (Non)Communication of War Violence Against Civilians in Ego Documents (Austria-Hungary)

Christa Hämmerle



Chapter 15. Hunger, Rape, Escape: The Many Aspects of Violence against Women and Children in the Territories of the Italian Front

Nadia Maria Filippini



Section 7: War Experience and Memory



Chapter 16. The Construction of the Enemy in Two Jewish Writers: Carolina Coen Luzzatto and Enrica Barzilai Gentilli

Tullia Catalan



Chapter 17. Heroic Fathers, Patriotic Mothers, Fallen Sons: National Belonging and Political Positioning in Italian-Jewish Families’ Versions of World War I

Ruth Nattermann



Chapter 18. The Commemoration of Jewish Soldiers in Austria

Gerald Lamprecht



Index