Amos Luzzatto, a writer, university
professor, scholar and former head of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities (UCEI), died Wednesday in his Rome home aged
92.
"An extraordinary man and leader has passed," said UCEI
President Noemi Di Segni.
She said Luzzatto, a former two-time UCEI president, had left
"an indelible mark on the whole of Italian society" as "an
essayist and active popularizer of the multi-millennial Jewish
experience".
She said it was a "profound mark, with a thousand incessant
battles waged to affirm human rights, defend Holocaust
Remembrance, and fight against all forms of hatred, racism and
prejudice".
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