Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886-1967), scholar
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Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886-1967) was a Jewish-Italian scholar.
Biography
Focused on Hebrew and Arabic and other Semitic languages, as well on the history and culture of the ancient Near East. 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.