The Italian refuge : rescue of Jews during the Holocaust / edited by Ivo Herzer ; coedited by Klaus Voigt and James Burgwyn.

"Based on papers presented at the National Italian American Foundation Conference at Boston University, November 6 and 7, 1986"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293).

Christian-Jewish relations in Italy from unification to fascism / Andrew Canepa -- Fascist policy toward Italian Jews : tolerance and persecution / Meir Michaelis -- The legacy of the Risorgimento : Jewish participation in anti-fascism and the resistance / Alberto Cavaglion -- Italy in the overall context of the Holocaust / Paul Bookbinder -- The Jews during the German occupation and the Italian Social Republic / Liliana Picciotto Fargion -- Jewish refugees and immigrants in Italy, 1933-1945 / Klaus Voigt -- The internment camp of Ferramonti-Tarsia / Carlo Spartaco Capogreco -- The children of Villa Emma : rescue of the last Youth Aliyah before the Second World War / Josef Ithai -- The Italian rescue of Yugoslav Jews, 1941-1943 / Menachem Shelah -- How Italy protected the Jews in the occupied south of France, 1942-1943 / John Bierman -- Relations of Pius XII and the Catholic community with Jewish organizations / Robert A. Graham -- Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust : the case in Italy / Susan Zuccotti -- Selected bibliography of anti-Jewish persecution in Italy / Michele Sarfatti.