Hand-shaking, hat-tipping, private banquets, lectures, parlor games, afternoon tea, New Year and Christmas eve celebrations and any expression of pity for the Jews are all considered “bourgeois” and outmoded in Fascist Italy.
To show their contempt for such “decadent foreign customs” Fascist organizers are preparing a “chamber of horrors” exhibit on them for the economic self-sufficiency exposition now underway here.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
