List of Italian Jews
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Despite a continuous presence for over 2000 years, the Italian Jewish community – the Italkim – has numbered no more than 50,000 since it was fully emancipated in 1870. The following is a list of some prominent Italian Jews.
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Political figures
- Fiorello La Guardia, New York mayor (Italian parents, Jewish mother)
- Anna Kuliscioff, revolutionary feminist
- Luigi Luzzatti, Italian Prime Minister (1910-1911)
- Daniele Manin, President of the Venetian republic (1848) (Jewish father)
- Margherita Sarfatti, journalist & mistress of Mussolini
Academics
- Faraj ben Salim, physician
- Eugenio Calabi, mathematician
- Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician
- Federigo Enriques, mathematician
- Robert Fano, information theorist
- Ugo Fano, physicist
- Guido Fubini, mathematician
- Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicist (Jewish father)
- Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
- Cesare Lombroso, criminologist
- Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, rabbi, scholar, mystic
- Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
- Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist
- Guido Pontecorvo, geneticist
- Giulio Racah, physicist
- Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist
- Emilio Segrč, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
- Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, rabbi, philosopher
- Piero Sraffa, economist
- Gabriele Veneziano, physicist
- Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
- Vito Volterra, mathematician
Musicians
- Mario Ancona, baritone
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, guitar composer
- Eydie Gorme, singer (Italian father)
- Mike Mainieri, jazz vibrophanist (Italian parents)
- Lorenzo Da Ponte, opera librettist
- Salamone Rossi, baroque composer
- Victor de Sabata, conductor (Jewish mother)
Writers
- Giorgio Bassani, author
- Natalia Ginzburg, author (Jewish father)
- Carlo Levi, writer, painter & physician
- Primo Levi, chemist and author
- Alberto Moravia, author (Jewish father)
- Umberto Saba, poet (single Jewish mother)
- Clara Sereni, writer
- Italo Svevo, author
Artists
- Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
- Frank Horvat, fashion photographer
- Moni Ovadia, theatre figure
- Gillo Pontecorvo, director
- Bruno Zevi, architect
Business
- Moses Haim Montefiore, financier & philanthropist
- Camillo Olivetti, founder of Olivetti typewriters
Other
- Edgardo Mortara, boy kidnapped by Catholic Papal authorities
- Lindsey Vuolo, model (converted Italian father)