Review article
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.19.2.8
SALOMONE ENRICO EMILIO FRANCO (1881-1950) AND 1938 ITALIAN RACIAL LAWS: FROM THE ADRIATIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Alessandro Porro
; Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e di Comunità, CRC Centro di Salute Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italia. ORCID: 0000-0003-1783-1831
Lorenzo Lorusso
; ASST di Lecco, Merate (LC), Italia. ORCID: 0000-0002-5894-8545
Bruno Falconi
; Dipartimento di Specialità Medico Chirurgiche, Scienze Radiologiche e Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italia. ORCID: 0000-0003-1962-0691
Paolo Maria Galimberti
; UOS Servizio Beni Culturali. Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italia.
Antonia Francesca Franchini
; Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e di Comunità, CRC Centro di Salute Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italia. ORCID: 0000-0002-2998-9452
Abstract
More than eighty years ago, the so-called Racial Laws banished Italian Jews from all their properties and places. The authors analyze the biography of Salomone Enrico Emilio Fran-co (1881-1950), a cosmopolite pathologist. Born in Trieste but raised in Venice, he had his medical degree in Padua and was a pathologist at the Venice Hospital, and then he went to Portugal. Franco founded the Institute of pathology of Lisbon University. He studied leish-maniosis and hematology. During WWI, he served as a volunteer in the Italian Army. He was then a full professor of pathology at the Universities of Sassari, Bari, and Pisa. However, he was obliged by the so-called Racial Laws to leave Italy and go to Palestine. He fought as a volunteer for the realization of the State of Israel and directed the Institute of Pathology in Jerusalem.
Keywords
Salomone Enrico Emilio Franco, Jews in Medicine – XXth Century, Antisemi-tism – Italy
Hrčak ID:
271814
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Publication date:
13.1.2022.
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