) is a renowned writer

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 and historian

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, specialised on Italian and European Judaism

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 and Jewish history

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A graduate of electronic engineering

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 at the University of Padua

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 and of Philosophy

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 of science

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 at the University of Venice

University of Venice

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, he worked many years a director of TV programmes at RAI

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 for the Venetian Region.

Among his many works, noticeable are Dialogo sull’ebraismo (Dialogue on Judaism) (1984), an updated edition of the book written by important Venetian Rabbi Simone Calimani (Simchah ben Abraham Calimani

Simchah ben Abraham Calimani

Simchah ben Abraham Calimani was a Venetian rabbi and author. He was a versatile writer, and equally prominent as linguist, poet, orator, and Talmudist. During his rabbinate Calimani was engaged as corrector at the Hebrew printing office in Venice...

, an ancestor of his), who lived in the 18th century; The Ghetto of Venice

Venetian Ghetto

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(Costantino Pavan Prize), Ebrei e pregiudizio (Jews and Prejudice) (2000), Storia dell'ebreo errante (A History of the Wandering Jew) (2002), L'Inquisizione a Venezia (Inquisition in Venice) (2002), Non è facile essere ebreo (It's Not Easy To Be A Jew) (2004), Passione e tragedia (Passion and Tragedy) (2006), Ebrei eterni inquieti (Jews, Eternally Restless) (2007). In 1986 he received the Prize for Culture from the Italian Parliament and in 1997 the Europe

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an Prize for Culture

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Currently, he is the Vicepresident of the Jewish Community of Venice

Venice

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 and Honorary Swiss

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 Consul

Consul

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 in Venice

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External links

• Full bibliography on AllBookstores
• Review of The Ghetto of Venice (on Foreign Affairs, 1988)
• Author's Profile on BiblioMonde
• "Per Riccardo Calimani il saggio di Ariel Toaff è ambiguo e avvilente" (article on Il Giorno d'Israele, February 2007)
• Review of Calimani's book Paul (by G. Pagliarino, 2000)
• Profile on FestivalLetteratura