Italian Jewish Communities Portal

Maybe we could start with some of these more famous ones:

Italy[edit]

Political figures[edit]
Emanuele Fiano, politician
Vittorio Foa, socialist trade unionist
Sansone D'Ancona, Senator
Alessandro d'Ancona, 1904 Senator and 1906 mayor of Pisa
Alessandro Fortis, Italian Prime Minister (1905–1906)
Anna Kuliscioff, revolutionary feminist
Rita Levi-Montalcini, scientist and Senator
Luigi Luzzatti, Italian Prime Minister (1910–1911)
Ernesto Nathan, mayor of Rome (1907–1913)
Margherita Sarfatti, journalist & mistress of Benito Mussolini
Claudio Treves, politician and writer, grandfather of Carlo Levi
Leone Wollemborg, politician and former Minister of Economy
Vincenzo Cirillo, campaigner for the expansion of the state of Israel

Religious and communal leaders[edit]
Samuel Aboab, prominent rabbi
Aaron ben Gershon Abu Al-Rabi or Aronne Abulrabi of Catania (1400–1450), rabbinic scholar, cabalist and astrologer.Called also Aldabi or Alrabi, Aaron was the First Jew in the history to be invited during a Pontificate to discuss freely and without censorship about religious subjects and papal perplexities.The Pope Martin V with his swarm of Cardinals welcomed him in Rome.[3]
Barbara Aiello, American rabbi with an interest in Italy
Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain
Umberto Cassuto, rabbi
Abraham Isaac Castello, Rabbi
Leone Ebreo, Neoplatonic philosopher
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Rabbi, scholar, mystic, also known as RAMCHAL
Amos Luzzatto, writer and former president of the Italian Jewish Communities Union
Raphael Meldola, Rabbi
David Nieto, rabbi
Riccardo Pacifici, Rabbi
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, Rabbi, philosopher
Elio Toaff, Rabbi and former Chief of Italian Jews Community
Samuel David Luzzatto important Rabbi and scholar, also known as SHADAL
Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician of Jewish origin
Isaiah di Trani, talmudist, Rabbi, also known as RID

Academics[edit]
Emilio Artom, mathematician
pedigree of Azzopardi
Faraj ben Salim, Sicilian physician and translator from Agrigento
Mosé Bonavoglia de' Medici, or Bonavoglio de' Medici, (d. 1447). Sicilian physician from Messina and Dienchelele (Naggid or Dayan kelali = Universal Judge of Sicilian Jews).His Hebrew name was Moses Hefez.[4]
Michele Besso, engineer
Caecilius of Calacte, Sicilian rhetorician from modern Caronìa
Eugenio Calabi, mathematician
Laura Capón, physicist; married to non-Jew Enrico Fermi
Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician
Enrico Castelnuovo, art historian and medievalist
Federigo Enriques, mathematician
Gino Fano, mathematician
Robert Fano, physicist
Ugo Fano, physicist[5]
Guido Fubini, mathematician
Carlo Ginzburg, historian
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicist (Jewish father)
Alberto Jori, philosopher (Jewish mother)
Beppo Levi, mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
Cesare Lombroso, criminologist
Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)
Samuel David Luzzatto
Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-born historian (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
Attilio Momigliano, literary critic, Dante scholar
Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist
Guido Pontecorvo, geneticist
Giulio Racah, physicist
Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist
Asher Salah, Historian
Beniamino Segre, mathematician
Cesare Segre, linguistics, semiotics
Corrado Segre, mathematician
Emilio Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
pedigree of Sforno
Piero Sraffa, economist
Manfredo Tafuri, architectural historian, critic and theorist
Ariel Toaff, Historian
Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
Vito Volterra, mathematician
Bruno Zevi, architectural critic and historian

Musicians[edit]
Mario Ancona, baritone
Abramo Basevi, composer and musician
Alvise Bassano, musician[6]
Anthony Bassano, musician[6]
Baptista Bassano, musician[6]
Jeronimo Bassano, musician[6]
Haim Cipriani, violinist and reform rabbi
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, guitar,classical and synagogal music composer
Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist[7] and composer
Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)
Abramino dall'Arpa, harpist
Aldo Finzi, composer
Salamone Rossi, baroque composer
Victor de Sabata, conductor (Jewish mother)
Leone Sinigaglia, composer
Obadiah the Proselyte (musician)[8]

Writers[edit]
Enrico Castelnuovo, father of Guido
Giorgio Bassani, author
Angela Bianchini, fiction writer
Riccardo Calimani, fiction writer and historian
Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)
Leonardo de Benedetti, physician and writer
Manuela Dviri, writer
Alain Elkann, writer and journalist, father of John, Lapo and Ginevra
Carlo Ginzburg, historian, writer, essayst and pioneer of microhistory
Leone Ginzburg, writer (born in Ukraine)
Natalia Ginzburg (b. Levi), author (Jewish father), wife of Leone and mother of Carlo
Arrigo Levi, writer, journalist and TV anchorman
Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician
Primo Levi, chemist and author
Carlo Michelstaedter, philosopher
Lisa Morpurgo Dordoni, writer, astrologer
Paolo Mieli, journalist, historian and director of Corriere della Sera
Liana Millu, writer
Alberto Moravia (b. Pincherle), author (Jewish father)
Alessandro Piperno, writer
Umberto Saba, poet (Jewish mother)
Roberto Saviano, writer, journalist (Jewish mother)
Clara Sereni, writer
Italo Svevo (b. Schmitz), author
Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant[9]

Artists[edit]
Vito D'Ancona, painter
Cristiana Capotondi, actress (half Jewish)
Gioele Dix, (b. Davide Ottolenghi) actor and comedian
Ginevra Elkann, film director, sister of John and Lapo
Arnoldo Foà, actor
Massimiliano Fuksas, architect (Jewish father)
Vittorio Gassman, actor (Jewish mother)
Alessandro Haber, actor
Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician
Leo Lionni
Gino Levi Montalcini, architect
Emanuele Luzzati, painter
Gabriele Levy, sculptor
Anna Magnani, actress (Jewish mother)
Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect, critic and editor
Moni Ovadia, theatre figure
Gillo Pontecorvo, director
Xenia Rappoport, actress
Bruno Zevi, architect

Business[edit]
John & Lapo Elkann, Vice Chairman of Fiat (Jewish father).
Armand, Georges, Maurice & Paul Marciano, founders of GUESS.[10]
Moses Haim Montefiore, financier & philanthropist.
Adriano Olivetti, son of Camillo, industrialist and social activist.
Camillo Olivetti, founder of Olivetti typewriters.
Carlo De Benedetti, industrialist, ex-CEO of FIAT, Olivetti, CIR Group, ex-deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano and ex president of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso.
Chaim Bracha, One of the founders of Jaffa Oranges

Mario Toselli (born 8 JAN 1903 in Cuneo, died 22 AUG 1969) is reported to have saved many Jews.

He is mentioned in a book "Luoghi della memoria, memoria dei luoghi nelle regioni alpine occidentali ..." that I cannot read:

http://tinyurl.com/kp3l669

Oliver Bryk I found an article on Mario Toselli
http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1955_november.pdf - AJR Information, Page 7