Through the in-depth analysis of a file of racial ascertainment and contestation of a denaturalization measure, identified in the Demorazza fund (Central State Archives), this article aims to trace the entire dynamics of the naturalization and denaturalization of a “stateless” (first ex-Russian and then ex-Italian) man of Jewish origin in Fascist Italy, pivoting on the actions and resources that he himself mobilized to construct and adapt from time to time his public identity to the criteria of the authorities. With this, the article aims to offer an initial reconstruction of Fascist denaturalization policies and to highlight the relationship that exists between the affair triggered by the anti-Semitic measure of revocation of citizenship and the previous naturalization process, which, as in most cases of revocation as a result of anti-Semitic legislation, took place equally under the Fascist regime, but at a stage prior to the 1936-1938 turn. The article thus questions, from a bottom-up perspective, the continuities and discontinuities represented by Fascism and, in particular, Fascist anti-Semitic policy on citizenship, thus articulating the nexus between “race” and “nativeness”.
Il caso Blinderman. Naturalizzazione, revoca della cittadinanza e antisemitismo nell'Italia fascista
Enrica Asquer
2024-01-01
Abstract
Through the in-depth analysis of a file of racial ascertainment and contestation of a denaturalization measure, identified in the Demorazza fund (Central State Archives), this article aims to trace the entire dynamics of the naturalization and denaturalization of a “stateless” (first ex-Russian and then ex-Italian) man of Jewish origin in Fascist Italy, pivoting on the actions and resources that he himself mobilized to construct and adapt from time to time his public identity to the criteria of the authorities. With this, the article aims to offer an initial reconstruction of Fascist denaturalization policies and to highlight the relationship that exists between the affair triggered by the anti-Semitic measure of revocation of citizenship and the previous naturalization process, which, as in most cases of revocation as a result of anti-Semitic legislation, took place equally under the Fascist regime, but at a stage prior to the 1936-1938 turn. The article thus questions, from a bottom-up perspective, the continuities and discontinuities represented by Fascism and, in particular, Fascist anti-Semitic policy on citizenship, thus articulating the nexus between “race” and “nativeness”.
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