Rethinking the Age of Emancipation

“The volume should interest scholars of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries, while its engaging individual chapters could easily be assigned to undergraduate or graduate students.”• The English Historical Review

“For many reasons, [this] is an exciting and groundbreaking book… [Its] three editors are all highly qualified to comment on the present state of affairs in histography regarding the family, the nation, and Jewish and gender history. They write with urgency and clarity… By integrating the comparative histories of Italy and Germany with the transnational, as well as the Jewish and feminist histories of Italy and Germany, the book shows very clearly how both these perspectives are significant and necessary, offering insights into the way individuals and families in both nation states considered how gender and identity formed a major part of their shared experiences.”• Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

“The greatest achievement of this edited volume is that it doesn’t aim to define emancipation but to understand both the ‘woman’ and ‘Jewish question’ within the ideology of nationalism. The articles also provide new conceptual frameworks such as compared and integrated history, transnational, and entangled histories (Amerigo Caruso), and a variety of yet unexplored historical sources, such as ego documents. Scholars interested in the intersection of the cultural turn and nationalism studies might find this volume of prime interest as well.”• KULT_Online

“With a genuinely transnational perspective, this volume avoids the pitfalls of a simple juxtaposition of parallel stories, German and Italian, entrenched in the narrative tradition of national history. It presents an original standpoint on gender as well as Jewish studies.”• Asher Salah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem