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* 34 laws caused Jewish emigration abroad, including about three thousand Jewish residents with foreign citizenship . This was a "brain drain" of many wealthy and outstanding professionals . From their new locations, many of them made up for their losses and contributed to the fight against the Axis . Seven years later, as the eminent anti - fascist Ernesto Rossi wrote in one of his letters from incarceration, the “Semitic Race with a desert - type and Levantine manipulative personality” defeated the self - styled superior Italian Aryans . He concluded that “the politics of fanaticism and intolerance of French and Spanish Kings contributed during the th century [ sic ] to the prosperity of the Holland and England, that welcome Jews and 17 Huguenots, more than any discovery or invention” ( Rossi, 1968, letter from 22 nd October, . ) 1938 Unlike Argentina, England, Australia, and the Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1 the immigration of 2,000 Italian Jews to the U . S . has rarely been analysed in academic perspective . There are many reasons for this lack of knowledge . Among other things, there was no unified and defined "community" . Indeed, they had in common their bourgeois background, their aristocratic - like urban and cosmopolitan manners, their wealth, their elitist education and professional prestige . However, they did not constitute a coherent group of refugees, did not escape together, did not settle in a specific area along the East Coast, and did not join any local American Community as the Italo - American established citizens or Ashkenazi established Jews . Moreover, they were disliked by the WASP society . They were not a whole but a sum of parts . They did not have their own synagogue as an assembly place of a congregation . As will be stressed later, only their nuclear family kept and cemented strong cohesiveness . However, as individuals they continued to share the humanistic heritage of their country of origin, and to contribute to societal values and ideas that went beyond ethnic and religious particularism . Their contribution to the U . S . can be divided into several fields : science, academy and military ( sometimes overlapping ) , politics, mass media, music, arts and business . In this paper we will not describe each field, or depict the personal stories of eminent personalities . This oral history is well described by Pontecorboli’s ( 2014 ) seminal work, based on journals, memoirs and interviews with these protagonists and their relatives . However, we must mention a few eminent figures, who to some extent changed the course of the human history . Those whose contacts and cooperation contributed to the nuclear project, and in particular those who lived in the Sancta Sanctorum of Los Alamos . In fact, a nuclear Jewish family settled together in a secret nuclear scientific site . For example, Segrè Which welcomed eminent Zionist Jews, such as Umberto Moshe David Cassuto, Bible commentator, Roberto 1 Bachi, the founder of the Statistical Bureau, and Enzo Sereni, a leading Italian Zionist and co - founder of Givat Brenner Kibbutz .
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אדמוני, אריאל
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