Julie Carbonara
Julie Carbonara is a bi-lingual Italian-born journalist who has written widely on business, travel and food, but whose interests extend to politics and social and Jewish issues.#000d She has lived and worked in the UK and in South Africa, where she also developed a keen interest in the country’s internal political affairs. #000d Julie has contributed articles of Italian-Jewish political interest to the JC foreign desk, and is regularly commissioned to write for the JC obituaries page.#000d
Obituary: Jessica Mann
Crime novelist, journalist and broadcaster, longlisted for the Booker Prize
Descendants of forced converts face struggle for recognition in Italy
Descendants of forced converts are showing a new interest in Judaism - but are rabbis ready to welcome them?
Obituary: Steven Bochco
Pioneering writer and producer who revolutionised TV police dramas
Obituary: Coco Schumann
German jazz musician who played with the Ghetto Swingers in Terezin
The lost music of the Holocaust
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
Obituary: 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
Obituary: 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.
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