Riccardo Calimani (born 1946 in

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, Italy) is a writer and historian, specialising in Italian and European

Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...

and Jewish history. A graduate of

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at the

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and of Philosophy of science at the

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, he worked many years a director of TV programmes at RAI for the Venetian Region. Among his many works 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 (Simon) ben Abraham Calimani (1699 – August 2, 1784) 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 ...

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

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and in 1997 the European Prize for Culture. Currently, he is the Vicepresident of the Jewish Community of

and Honorary Swiss Consul in Venice.

Bibliography

*''Ebrei eterni inquieti ( Jews, Eternally Restless)'' (2007) *''Non è facile essere ebreo (It's Not Easy To Be A Jew)'' (2004) *''Passione e tragedia: La Storia Degli Ebrei Russi (Passion and Tragedy: The History of Russian Jews)'' (January 2006), 1st ed. *''Le Radici del Futuro : 1985–2005, I Protagonisti del

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'' (with Vittorio Pierobon) January 2005, 1st ed. *''Storia del ghetto di Venezia'' (1995) **''The Venetian Ghetto'' (with Anna-Vera Sullam Calimani, Davide Calimani – January 2005) *''Storia dell'Ebreo Errante : Dalla Distruzione del Tempio di Gerusalemme al Novecento (A History of the

Wandering Jew The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. T ...

)'' (January 2002) 1st ed. *''L'inquisizione a Venezia : Eretici E Processi 1548–1674'' (January 2002) **''Venice : Guide to the Synagogues, Museum and Cemetery (with Cesare Vivante, Giovannina Sullam Reinisch)'' (January 2001) 1st ed. *''Ebrei e Pregiudizio : Introduzione alla Dinamica dell'Odio (Jews And Prejudice: Introduction to Hate Dynamics)'' (January 2000) 1st ed. *''Paolo: L'Ebreo che fondò il Cristianesimo ( Paul: The Jew Who Founded Christianity)'' (January 1999) 1st ed. *''Capitali Europee dell'Ebraismo tra Ottocento e Novecento'' (January 1998), 1st ed. *''Le Vie Del Mondo : Berlino, Budapest, Praga, Vienna E Trieste Intellettuali Ebrei E Cultura Europea Dal 1880 Al 1930'' (January 1998) *''I destini e le avventure dell'intellettuale ebreo, 1650–1933 (Destinies and Adventures of the Intellectual Jew, 1650–1933)'' (January 1996) 1st ed. *''Presenze Ebraico-Cristiane nelle Venezie (Jewish-Christian Presences in the Venezie)'' (with Giuseppe Dal Ferro – January 1993) *''Storia dei marrani a Venezia (A History of

Marranos Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted or were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy. The term specifically refers to the charge ...

in Venice)'' (January 1991) 1st ed. *''Gesù ebreo ( Jewish Jesus)'' (January 1990) 1st ed. *'' The Ghetto of Venice'' (with Katherine Silberblatt Wolfthal – October 1987) *''Storia dell'Ebreo Errante (History of the

)'' (January 1987) 1st ed. *''Energia, Più Dubbi, Meno Certezze : I Perché Di Un Problema (Energy: More Doubts, Less Certainties)'' (January 1981) *''Una di maggio (One in May)'' (1975)

External links

Full bibliography on ''AllBookstores''
(on ''Foreign Affairs,'' 1988)

"Per Riccardo Calimani il saggio di Ariel Toaff è ambiguo e avvilente"
(article on ''Il Giorno d'Israele'', February 2007)

(by G. Pagliarino, 2000)
Profile on ''FestivalLetteratura''
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