Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
75,1-2 (2009) 209-226
Keywords:
Viterbo, Camillo
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Italy Emigration and immigration
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History
Abstract:
With the enactment of the Racial Laws in 1938, ca. 400 Jewish lecturers were expelled from Italian universities. The persecution of Jewish intellectuals and academics reached also the tiny Jewish community of Sardinia, where only 67 Jews were living. Four Jewish lecturers lost their positions: Teodoro Levi (b. Trieste, 1898), professor of archaeology at the University of Cagliari, Alberto Pincherle (b. Milano, 1894), professor of the history of religions at the same university, Camillo Viterbo (b. Trieste, 1900), professor of law at the same university, and Michelangelo Ottolenghi (b. Torino, 1904), professor of veterinary studies at the University of Sassari. Focuses on the professional profile of Viterbo, who studied in Padova and then worked in Milano. He arrived in Sardinia in 1937. Like the other lecturers, Viterbo emigrated; first to Brazil, where he taught at the University of São Paulo and later moved to Buenos Aires and became a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. After the war he returned to Italy, but went back again to Buenos Aires where he died in 1948. Mentions, also, the case of Zaira Cohen, a teacher at a secondary school in Sassari. After she was expelled from her job, she went to Firenze, were she was arrested in 1944. According to different versions of close relatives, she might have perished in Auschwitz or died in a train carriage where she was abandoned.
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