The Shamama case : contesting citizenship across the Mediterranean /
Marglin, Jessica
The Shamama case : contesting citizenship across the Mediterranean / Jessica M. Marglin - Princeton : Princeton University Press, cop. 2022 - (XVIII, 363 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 249-353
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate--a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews, Muslims, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional, cultural, and political borders
978-0-691-23587-5
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CRISE POLITIQUE
STATUT JURIDIQUE
CITOYENNETE
BEY
JUIF
TUNIS
FRANCE
ITALIE
305.89240611
The Shamama case : contesting citizenship across the Mediterranean / Jessica M. Marglin - Princeton : Princeton University Press, cop. 2022 - (XVIII, 363 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 249-353
In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his estate--a matter that depended on his nationality. Was he an Italian citizen? A subject of the Bey of Tunis? Had he become stateless? Or was his Jewishness also his nationality? Tracing a decade-long legal battle involving Jews, Muslims, and Christians from both sides of the Mediterranean, The Shamama Case offers a riveting history of citizenship across regional, cultural, and political borders
978-0-691-23587-5
CONFLIT DES LOIS
CRISE POLITIQUE
STATUT JURIDIQUE
CITOYENNETE
BEY
JUIF
TUNIS
FRANCE
ITALIE
305.89240611