Apology for Judaism

Dante Lattes was a well-known Jewish journalist and educator—and rabbi, although he hardly ever acted in that capacity—in twentieth-century Italy. He edited the Trieste-based Il corriere israelitico from 1904 to 1916. In 1925, he published the first volume of La rassegna mensile di Israel, which became a widely circulated literary periodical. He was an active Zionist from his youth—indeed, among the first to champion Zionism in Italy. He delivered hundreds of speeches in different communities and translated the works of major Zionist thinkers into Italian. He took refuge in Palestine from Italy’s Fascist racial laws from 1938 to 1946, when he returned to Italy to continue his work as an educator and a writer.