VITERBO, CARLO ALBERTO

VITERBO, CARLO ALBERTO
VITERBO, CARLO ALBERTO (1889–1974), leader of Italian Jewry. Born in Florence, Viterbo studied law at the University of Pisa, coming under the influence of S.H. Margulies and A. Pacifici . An early Zionist, he participated in numerous congresses and was president of the Italian Zionist Federation and of Keren Hayesod. In 1936–37, he went on a study tour of North African Jewish communities on behalf of the Italian Jewish community. He also made contact with the falashas in Ethiopia, then under Italian rule, and published new documents he had found on their history (Annuario di Studi Ebraici, 2 (1937), 125ff.). From 1944 Viterbo edited the weekly Israel. He also published some Hebrew language textbooks (1933, 1955, 1968). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Israel, 54 (1969), no. 14, 5–6 (It.). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: F. del Canuto (ed.), Israel un decennio: 1974 – 1984 (1984). (Alfredo Mordechai Rabello)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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