Beyond Borders
*Between Welcome and Exclusion: Italian and Foreign Jewish Students in the Faculty of Medicine at the Royal University of Rome in the 1930s
This thematic path presents the initial findings of an ongoing research project on the personal dossiers of international students enrolled at the Royal University of Rome during the 1930s. Drawing on administrative records, personal files, and university registers, it reconstructs the experiences of Jewish students who chose the Faculty of Medicine of Rome for their university education.
These archival sources shed light on students' academic trajectories and geographical origins, while also revealing the impact of the gradual implementation of antisemitic policies - and, in particular, the 1938 Italian Racial Laws - on their academic careers and personal lives.
Although based on an initial corpus of archival material, this research opens up new avenues for investigation and public engagement by bringing to light individual biographies that illustrate the intersection of university history, migration, and persecution in twentieth-century Europe.
