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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.
Politicians & Activists
Religious Figures
Academics
- Eugenio Calabi, mathematician
- Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician
- Luigi Cremona, 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)
- Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
- Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist
- Guido Pontecorvo, geneticist
- Giulio Racah, physicist
- Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist
- Emilio Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
- Piero Sraffa, economist
- Gabriele Veneziano, physicist
- Giuseppe Vitali, mathematician
- Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
- Vito Volterra, mathematician
Musicians
Writers
Artists
- Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
- Frank Horvat, fashion photographer
- Moni Ovadia, theatre figure
- Gillo Pontecorvo, director
- Bruno Zevi, architect
Business
See also
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