Tullia Zevi, Italian journalist and politician, leader of the Italian Jewish community died she was , 91.

Tullia Zevi née Calabi was an Italian journalist and writer  died she was , 91. . Zevi's family fled Italy to France and then to the United States of America after the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. While in New York, she married Bruno Zevi. She returned to Europe in 1946, and was one of the few women journalists to report the Nuremberg Trials. On her return to Italy, she played a major role in Interfaith dialog, and was active in Italian Centre-left politics. Zevi was President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 1983 to 1998.

(2 February 1919 – 22 January 2011)

Early life

Zevi was born in Milan, one of four children of a middle-class Milanese Jewish-Italian family.^[1][2]
Her father Giuseppe Calabi was a lawyer and prominent anti-fascist.^[3][4]

Study and displacement

Zevi studied philosophy at the University of Milan and studied music the Milan Conservatory.^{[citation needed]} When the Fascist government of Italy passed Anti-Jewish laws, Zevi was on holiday in Switzerland with her family.^[2][4] Later they moved to France, where Zevi continued her studies at Sorbonne in Paris . Anticipating the Fall of France, the Calabi family emigrated to the United States.^[4]

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