Emilio Jona

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Emilio Jona was born to an ancient family of the Jewish Piemontese Borghesia, the kind so well described by Primo Levi. He underwent seven years of racial persecution and lost several relatives during the Holocaust. In addition to his work in the legal profession, he has carried out an intense cultural activity, publishing numerous books and essays on social-political culture in Italy, as well as novels, short stories, plays, opera libretti, and poetry. A collection of his essays on Jewish culture, antisemitism, the Holocaust, the State of Israel, has recently been published in a volume entitled "Essere Altrove: scritti sull'ebraismo", published by Neri Pozza 2022.