Julie Carbonara

‘This music belongs to mankind, not me’

Francesco Lotoro's quest to discover the music composed by concentration camp prisoners has led to a unique concert in Israel

Obituary: Rabbi Giuseppe Laras

A teacher, a scholar, the rabbi who put Milan at the forefront of the dialogue between Jews and Christians, Rabbi Giuseppe Vittorio Laras, who has died aged 82, was a man of peace who did not believe that peace equaled appeasement and was not afraid of being controversial.

Italy set to open new Judaism and Shoah museum

When completed, building in Ferrara will resemble the five books of the Torah

Obituary: Luisella Ottolenghi Mortara

Art historian who combined the study of Jewish illuminated manuscripts with documenting the Shoah in Italy

Obituary: Lady Fairfax

Socialite who married into Australia's oldest newspaper-owning family

Palermo synagogue set to return after 500 years

Shobha Magdolna Friedmann Nehru

Hungarian Jew who married into India's Nehru family

Obituary: Dr Herbert Needleman

Doctor who exposed how lead affects child development and behaviour

Clean and tidy? Our beach is a fascist regime

Italian owner of seaside facility south of Venice installs 'gas chamber' showers

Lord Joel Joffe

Nelson Mandela’s defence lawyer who became a successful businessman, philanthropist and advocate of assisted dying

Obituary: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

He was the Soviet Union’s own “angry young man”, an electrifying performer whose work dealt not with productivity but personal, intimate subjects.

Obituary: Irvine Sellar

A man whose short stature belied a larger-than-life personality and a drive to match, and who had a huge capacity to bounce back quickly when life knocked him down.