I would like to thank
the following for their patronage:
Paul Holdengräber and Thomas G. Lannon, assistant director of
Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books at the New York Public Library; Cara
Dellatte and all the staff of Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books at the NYPL
for their valued help during various phases of my research from 2007 onwards,
and for all the material from the records of the ECADFS made available for
research purposes.
Stephen Wordsworth, director of the Council for At-Risk Academics
in London for permission to work on the papers of the SPSL, the historic
archive of the organisation: ‘Over 85 years since CARA was founded, academics
still face danger from persecution, violence and conflict in many countries,
and so CARA has
continued its work, bringing hundreds to safety in recent years.’
Chris Fletcher, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, which currently holds the SPSL archive.
Anthony Tamburri, director of the J. Calandra Italian American
Institute, CUNY, where I carried out a part of the research as a M. Di Palermo McCauley
Visiting Scholar.
Yochai Ben-Ghedalia, director of the Central Archives for the
History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University, Jersualem, for providing
material.
For their dedicated
involvement:
the late Daniela Misul, president of the Jewish Community of
Florence, the Historical Studies Group of the Community, together with Lea
Campos Boralevi and Lionella Neppi Modona Viterbo; Guido and Anne Calabresi who
also generously offered hospitality in Manhatten; Helly Bonaventura Snir and
Sergio della Pergola, through whose good offices moreover it was possible to
consult personal files from the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem; my colleagues at IASA, in particular Marcella Bencivenni, Mary
Gibson and Stan Pugliese, for their suggestions and interest.
Without Francesca Cavarocchi and her constant commitment I would
never even have ventured to consider the idea of setting up the database, an
instrument which we hope will be put to use and offer material for further
analysis, including of a statistical nature, as Alessandra Petrucci has urged.
Grateful thanks also to
the following:
Laura Solito, prorettrice, and Laura Giambastiani, representative of the Rettore, University of Florence. Claudia De Venuto and Floriana Pagano of the Culture and Research Directorate of the Regione Toscana, Dario Abbate of the SAGAS Department. Elisa Cavigli, Fioranna Salvadori, Fabio Silari and the staff of the University of Florence Archivio e trattamento degli atti who are ordering the university’s archival series which are currently scattered in various locations.
The staff of archives cited in the biographies and corresponding
sources (listed in the alphabetical order of their institutions). In particular:
Angie Goodgame and the staff of the Bodleian Library - Special Collections,
Oxford
Anastasia Glazanova of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish
People, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Raffaella Gobbo, Centro APICE, Università di Milano
Andrea Moroni, Fondazione Corriere della Sera, Milan
Guido Enrico Montanari, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, Milan
Matteo Mazzoni, ISRT, Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza, Florence
Julien Couture, McGill University Archives, Montreal
The staff of the New School Archive, New York
Giovanni Morrocchesi, Archivio
Ordine dei
medici chirurghi e degli odontoiatri of the province of Florence
Catie Huggins, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections &
University Archives, Nortwestern University
Nathan Coy, Sounds Archive, Stanford University
Andrea Daltri, Archivio Storico,
University of Bologna
Polina E. Ilieva and Jasmine Dew, Archives and Special Collections, University
of California, San Francisco
Marco De Poli and Donatella Mazzetto, Archivio storico, University of Padua
Daniela Lo Brutto, Archivio Storico di ateneo, University of Palermo
Daniele Ronco, Archivio Storico, University of Pisa
Anne Allis and Abbie Weiser, Special Collections, University of Texas at El
Paso Library
Paola Novaria, Archvio Storico,
University of Turin
Lesley Annamalay, Special Collections and Archive, Reid Library, The University
of Western Australia.
The following professional regulatory bodies in Florence have kindly
facilitated access to their archives: the Ordine
degli architetti (architects), who however hold no documentation prior
to 1940; the Ordine degli
ingegneri (engineers), and the Ordine
dei medici (physicians). The Ordine
degli avvocati (lawyers) were unable to permit consultation due to the
material being inaccessible.
All those who have offered testimony, recollections, documents and
photographs for the preparation of biographies of relatives, colleagues or
acquaintances:
David Abrahamson (Northwestern University, IL), Pina Antognini (Milano), the late Daniel Ascheri (Tel Aviv), Irit Ashery Liebman (Jersualem), Alberto Barocas (Roma), Leonardo Bieber, Rachel Bonaventura Snir (Tel Aviv), Guido Calabresi (Yale University), Steven G. Calabresi (Northwestern University), Lea Campos Boralevi (University of Florence), David Cassuto (Ariel University in Samaria), Susanna Cassuto Evron (Jerusalem), Piero Cividalli, Guido Clemente (University of Florence), Leo Coen Pirani (Milan), Gilbert De Benedetti (Pittsburgh), Lydia De Benedetti Moran (CA), Vera De Benedetti Bonnet (Pittsburgh), Andrea De Marchi (University of Florence), Roberto De Philippis (University of Florence), Umberto Di Gioacchino, Vasanti Ferrando Fithian (Santa Barbara, CA), Carlo Franchetti (University of Florence), Annalia Franchetti (University of Florence), Liana Funaro (Florence), Neil Gentilli (Perth), Sandro Gerbi (Milan), Diana Goldschmied (Olbicella, AL.), Maria Cristina Lauria (Florence), Maria Leuzzi Fubini (Florence), Jean Levi (Paris), Luisa Levi D’Ancona (Jerusalem), Viviano Levi D’Ancona (Florence), Piera Levi-Montalcini (Rome), Anna Lombroso (Cambridge, MA.), Michele Luzzatto, Gigliola Mariani Sacerdoti (University of Florence), Eliana Montuori (Buenos Aires), Robert Nissim (New York), Daniele Olschki (Florence), Marina Peressutti (Milan), Maurizio Pincherle, Sylvia Poggioli (New York), Bosiljka Raditsa (New York), Romano Reuven Ravenna, Elena Lea Rossi Artom (Jerusalem), Linda Rossi (New York), Michele Sarfatti (Milan), Laura Trevisan (Venice), Lucy Vivante e Lydia Vivante (Wellfleet MA), Giovanna and Sara Volterra (Florence).
Among the many who have helped in establishing contacts and in
finding further evidence and sources:
Judy Balcombe (Melbourne), Filippo Bauleo (USL2 Umbria), Giampaolo Borghello (University of Udine), Renato Camurri (University of Verona), Carlo Spartaco Capogreco (University of Calabria), Roberto Casalbuoni (University of Florence), Alberto Cavaglion (University of Florence), Fiorella Citerni (Florence), Alessandro De Angelis (University of Padova), Matteo Fiorani (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Marcello Garzaniti (University of Florence), Giacomo Gabbuti (University of Oxford), Matteo Galli (University of Ferrara), Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Valeria Graffone (University of Turin), Javier Grossutti (University of Padova), Elisa Lo Monaco (Florence), Stefano Luconi (University of Padova), Teresita Mazzei (OMF and University of Florence), Massimo Mazzoni (University of Florence), Antonella Meniconi (Sapienza University, Rome), Francesco Micelli (University of Udine), Alessandra Minerbi (Milan), Anthony Molho (European University Institute), Ilaria Monda (Florence), Giovanni Montroni (Federico II University, Naples), Mauro Moretti (Università per Stranieri, Siena), Nerio Naldi (Sapienza University, Rome), the late Giancarlo Paba (University of Florence), Antonio Panti (Florence), Alessandro Pascolini (University of Padua), Marco Piccolino (University of Ferrara), Penelope Poetis (Munich), Dorothy Porter (University of California, San Francisco), Chiara Renzo (University of Florence), Ilaria Romeo (University of Florence), Daniela Scala (CDEC, Milan), Cosimo Schinaia (Genova), Michael Sierra (Jerusalem), Edward Shorter (University of Toronto), Valdo Spini (Florence), Massimo Tarassi (Florence), Laura Trevisan (Venice), Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester), Mario Varvaro (University of Palermo), Paola Zocchi (La Bicocca University, Milan), Katherine Wilson (University of Toronto), Kathy Zotnowski (Ojai, CA).
The English version of this online portal would not have been possible without the kind generosity of all those who offered their services as translators as a statement against racism and antisemitism.