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On Mussolini and the Jews: A Critical Response to Cabona

Maurizio Cabona provides an excellent account of the integration of Italian Jews, from unification until the racial legislation of 1938, and he certainly is correct in maintaining that the Fascist government never successfully mobilized the general population around anti-Semitic themes. Unlike such other European cases as France, Austria and Germany, Italy witnessed no anti-Semitic movements or political parties during the late nineteenth century that later could be redeployed as a basis for political mobilization during the interwar period. By the time the racial laws were promulgated in 1938, Italy's Jewish community had been fully integrated into the Italian mainstream, even...