Vittorio Dan Segre

Vittorio Dan Segre (born December 4, 1922 in Rivoli , † September 27, 2014 in Turin ) was an Italian - Israeli diplomat , journalist and author .

Life

Segre fled Mussolini's fascists to Palestine in 1939 at the age of 16 . There he joined the British Army during the Second World War . After the war he worked as an Israeli diplomat, including as the Israeli ambassador to Madagascar .

After leaving diplomacy in the mid-1980s, Vittorio Segre worked as a journalist and professor for international relations in Israel and Italy. During this time he wrote two autobiographical novels: Story of a fortunate Jew and Story of a failed diplomate (2003). Among other publications, he published the war novel La guerra privata del tenente Guillet .

Vittorio Segre lived and worked in Lugano and Turin.

plant

• Israel; a society in transition . Oxford University Press, London / New York 1971.
• The high road and the low; a study in legitimacy, authority and technical aid . Allen Lane, London 1974.
• Jewish political thought and contemporary politics . Bar-Ilan University, Dept. of Political Studies 1977.
• A crisis of identity: Israel and Zionism . Oxford University Press, London / New York 1980
• La guerra privata del tenente Guillet: la resistenza italiana in Eritrea durante la seconda guerra mondiale . Corbaccio, Milan 1993, ISBN 978-8879-7202-67
• Quest'anno a Gerusalemme: gli ebrei italiani in Israele (together with Angelo Pezzana), Corbaccio, Milan 1997, ISBN 978-8879-7223-15
• Memoirs of a failed diplomat . Halban, London 2004, ISBN 978-1870-0158-99
• Le metamorfosi di Israele . UTET libreria, Turin 2006, ISBN 978-8802-0740-85

German editions:

• A lucky raven: the story of an Italian Jew , Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag 1996, ISBN 978-3-423-30576-1 , first Frankfurt / Main, Eichborn-Verlag 1993, series Die Other Bibliothek , ISBN 978-3-8218- 4101-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vittorio Dan Segre, Italian writer and political figure, dies at 92