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'''Giorgio Levi Della Vida''' (1886-1967) was a Jewish-Italian scholar. 

==Biography==
Giorgio Levi Dell Avida was born in Venice into an Italian Jewish family. 
Levi's research focused on Hebrew and Arabic and other Semitic languages, as well on the history and culture of the ancient Near East. He was one of the twelve Italian University professors who refused to pledge the oath of loyalty to Fascism in 1931, lost his position at the University of Rome. In 1939 fled to the United States where he taught Arabic at the Universities of Pennsylvania and San Diego, to return to Italy after the war.

==Works on Second Temple Judaism==

====Books====
*[[Gli ebrei: storia, religione, civiltà (1924 Della Vida), book]]

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Levi_Della_Vida Wikipedia] / [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Levi_Della_Vida Wikipedia.it]

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