Newsgroup: it.cultura.ebraica
Titolo: Tullia Zevi

apprendo che Tullia Zevi è morta,
le mie condoglianze all'intero newsgroup
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 apprendo che Tullia Zevi è morta,
Non lo sapevo.
Il suo cognome naturalmente non è Zevi (cognome del marito, famoso 
architetto Bruno Zevi, quello della Scalinata davanti al Museo Nazionale 
d'Arte Moderna, a Valle Giulia.
Mi sembra di capire che è Calabi, grazie al bel link di Tonibaruch.
I finerali sono domani.
Io quoto gli interessanti articoli del Jerusalem Post:
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Tullia Zevi, pillar of Italian Jewish community, dies
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/22/2011 22:35
Political and social activist Zevi returned to Italy after WWII to 
"participate in the rebirth of democracy in Italy following the defeat 
of fascism."
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ROME — Tullia Zevi, a pillar of Italy's Jewish community and an ardent 
anti-fascist who spent the war years in exile in Switzerland, France and 
the US, died Saturday. She was 91.
Zevi, the only female president of the Union of Italian Jewish 
Communities, died in Rome, current union president Renzo Gattegna said.
One of four children of a bourgeois Jewish family, Zevi was vacationing 
with her parents in Switzerland in 1938 when Italy passed its racial 
laws. The family, known for her father's anti-fascist beliefs, moved to 
France and later the US as World War II raged.
She returned to Italy in 1946 and worked as a journalist as well as with 
various center-left political parties.
In a biographical article she wrote in 1999, Zevi said she returned 
because she wanted to help Italy and its Jews rebuild after the war.
"The horrors of the war had just been discovered; the mass extermination 
of the Jews, the gypsies and political opponents, the devastation of 
Jewish communities," she wrote.
"It seemed right, having had the fortune of having survived, to return 
and participate in the reconstruction of this traumatized community in 
chaos, and also to participate in the rebirth of democracy in Italy 
following the defeat of fascism." She headed the Union of Italian Jewish 
Communities from 1983-1998, and even after that remained active in the 
Jewish community, frequently commenting in the media about 
Jewish-Vatican relations in particular.
In 1992, she was awarded Italy's highest civilian honor, news reports said.
"We recall her profound and dignified interventions that she made in 
defense of the Jews and all minorities," Gattegna said in a statement.
Her husband Bruno Zevi, an architect, Jewish leader and member of 
Italy's clandestine Justice and Liberty movement while fascists held 
power, died in 2000. They had two children.
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e dell'agenzia Reuters:
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Tullia Zevi, historic Italian Jewish leader, dead
Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:57pm GMT
By Philip Pullella
ROME (Reuters) - Tullia Zevi, one of the historic post-war leaders of 
Italy's Jews and the only woman to ever hold the post of president of 
the country's Jewish communities, died Saturday at the age of 92, her 
family said.
Zevi, who had been in failing health for some time and was a prominent 
figure in Christian-Jewish dialogue, died in a Catholic hospital just 
across the River Tiber from the Rome neighborhood that is still known as 
"The Ghetto."
During her long career she also held senior positions in the World 
Jewish Congress and European Jewish Congress.
She was often critical of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church when 
she felt Jewish rights were not respected. One of the best-known women 
in Italy for decades, she was once considered a candidate for the 
country's presidency.
Zevi was born in Milan of a well-to-do Jewish family that emigrated to 
the United States in the late 1930s after dictator Benito Mussolini 
enacted the so-called racial laws which prohibited Jews from holding 
state jobs or studying in state schools.
She was the lay head of Italy's Jewish communities from 1983 to 1998 and 
was one of the officials who welcomed the late Pope John Paul to the 
Rome synagogue in 1986 when he became the first pontiff since the times 
of the apostles to visit the temple.
During her presidency, she oversaw the implementation of a special 
accord with the Italian government in 1987 when Roman Catholicism lost 
its status as official state religion.
After leaving Italy, she first moved to France to continue her 
university studies in philosophy and music, fleeing to the United States 
when the Nazis occupied France.
She continued her studies in New York, where she became an accomplished 
harpist and played in several orchestras. She joined anti-Fascist 
associations in New York and after the war returned to Italy to begin a 
career in journalism.
She worked for several Israeli publications, covering the Nuremberg war 
crimes tribunal and the 1961 trial of captured SS officer Adolf 
Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Nazi Holocaust.
"We are losing a protagonist of our history," said former Rome mayor 
Walter Veltroni. "She was an extraordinary woman who was at once strong, 
courageous and meek."
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano hailed her "exquisite humanity and 
culture."
"For survivors, she was a clarion voice that warned against the dangers 
of neo-Nazism to not just Jews, but to society and democracy as a 
whole," said Elan Steinberg, executive director emeritus of the World 
Jewish Congress.
Steinberg called Zevi "a relentless champion of Jewish rights and the 
universal struggle against the malignant threat of fascism."
Her funeral will be held Monday.
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