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Aldo Zargani (born in Turin, 7 August 1933) is an Italian Jewish writer and public intellectual who lives in Rome. He started writing in his early sixties: his first and best-known book, ''Per violino solo'' (''For Solo Violin''), appeared in 1995. In addition to his autobiographical writing, Zargani contributes to discussions about the politics and culture of Italian Jews with essays, lectures and school visits. ==Biography== Aldo Zargani was born in Turin in 1933. In the second half of 1938, when he was five years old, the Fascist regime passed a series of anti-Semitic laws which affected the lives of every one of the approximately 46,000 Jews who lived in Italy at the time. Jews were prohibited from studying or teaching in state and private schools, forbidden to marry non-Jews, expelled from the Fascist Party and excluded from the public administration, from telephone directories and from obituary columns. Zargani's father Mario, a viola player in the national radio orchestra, was dismissed from his job, and Aldo and his brother started attending an ad hoc school set up by the Turin Jewish community. After Northern and Central Italy were occupied by German troops following the armistice between Italy and the Allies on 8 September 1943, the SS and the Gestapo began to round up Jews in every community. Zargani's parents were arrested but were able to avoid deportation, unlike some other members of their families. Aldo and his brother spent a year in hiding in a Catholic boarding school. After the World War II had ended, Zargani continued to live in Turin and worked as an actor in two theatre companies; he met his wife, Elena Magoja, a theatre and film actress, at this time. His principal employer was the Italian state radio and television corporation RAI, first in Turin and then in Rome. He retired in 1994. He has a daughter, Lina, and a grandson, Mario, for whom he wrote Per violino solo. Zargani's political allegiance is with the Italian Left. He was a long-time member of a left-wing faction of the Italian Socialist Party and is now an active member of the Gruppo Martin Buber – Ebrei per la pace (Jews for Peace) which recognizes the right of the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to independent and sovereign national states. Most of his essays focus on relations between Jews and non-Jews in Italy or political and historical uses of Holocaust memory.1 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aldo Zargani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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