Giuseppe Jona

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Giuseppe Jona (born October 28, 1866 in Venice ; died September 17, 1943 there ) was a Venetian doctor and head of the Jewish community in Venice from 1940 until his suicide.

Life

Jonah came from a Jewish family. He attended the Liceo Foscarini, where he met the mathematician Aureliano Faifofer and the philosopher Giorgio Politeo . In 1892 Jona finished his studies in medicine at the University of Padua to work first as an assistant in pathology, then from 1896 at the Ospedale Civile in Venice. From 1906 he concentrated on internal medicine and headed the bacteriological department, but also worked as a freelance lecturer in the field of pathology . He rose to the ladder of the house. During the First World War he advised military hospitals and worked as a leader for the Red Cross. In 1934 he made a substantial financial contribution to a new extension in the house, which has had his name since 1945. After the restoration between 2010 and 2014, a memorial stone was erected there.

Between April 10, 1921 and 1925 he was president of the Ateneo Veneto , after he had already become socio there on May 27, 1901 , and from 1933 to 1938 socio des Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti . As Ateneo Veneto President, he succeeded Davide Giordano , who was appointed mayor. In the Ateneo Veneto , the journal of the institute of the same name, published from his pen Il problema ospedaliero e il nuovo programma del comune (1918-19), La Veneta Società di Medicina (1789-1810) (1934) or Venezia medica del Settecento (1938) . In October 1938, Jona had to resign and leave the Ateneo because the Italian race laws forbade Jews from such activities. The institute thus lost 15% of its members.

On June 16, 1940, shortly after Italy entered the war, he was made president of the Jewish community, the Comunità Israelitica di Venezia . Jona had been a consultant in the community from 1932 to 1934. When the National Socialists occupied Venice on September 8, 1943 after the Italian armistice , they asked Jona to provide a list of the parishioners. He agreed to do so the next day, but warned the congregation, removed all papers that showed names and addresses, and committed suicide. Nevertheless, most of the Jews still living in Venice were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Only eight of them survived.

Four weeks after the end of the war, on June 3, 1945, Jona was rehabilitated in the Ateneo Veneto hall.

Publications (selection)

  • Problemi culturali a Venezia , in: L'Ateneo Veneto, XLVII (1924) 5-32.
  • La veneta società di medicina (1789-1810) , in: Giornale veneto di scienze mediche 6 (1934) 561-583.

literature

  • Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini: Giuseppe Jona nella scienza e nella storia del Novecento. CISO Veneto e Canova, Treviso 2014, ISBN 978-88-8409-283-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The company, founded in 1789, had been temporarily dissolved in 1797 ( Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna : Delle Inscrizioni Veneziane , Vol. 3, Orlandelli, Venice 1830, p. 272).
  2. ↑ On this occasion Mario Battain appeared: In memoria di Giuseppe Jona. In: Ateneo Veneto. Vol. 132, fasc. 1/6, January-July 1945, ISSN  0004-6558 , pp. 51-58.
personal data
SURNAME Jonah, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physician and chairman of the Venice Jewish community
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1943
Place of death Venice