La sinistra italiana e gli ebrei: riflessioni su un dibattito storiografico.

The author inquires into the relationship between the Italian Left and the Jews, in light of the main contributions on the issue. Unlike the US and the rest of Europe, the topic has been studied in Italy only since the 1990s. In fact, from Marx until recent times, several left-wing intellectuals and politicians denied specificity to the problem in the name of proletarian internationalism and the labor movement tradition, believing it would be solved within the broader project to change society, the latter concerning the oppressed worldwide regardless of their cultural, religious, linguistic and national identity. After having analyzed the historiographical debate from the post-war era to present times, the author argues that the most conclusive way to study the issue is the method employed by George Mosse in 1971: i.e. to reconstruct the political and cultural relationship that the left-wing political family, in its different expressions, entertained with the Jews, in order to acquire knowledge of both their histories and focus on one of the most significant issues of the 20th century, namely the relationship between the most relevant revolutionary political project of contemporary age and the most ancient minority of the world.