Giorgina Levi (1910-2011) was an Italian historian, member of Parliament and public intellectual. Born in Turin from politically engaged parents, following Mussolini’s Racial Laws, was forced to emigrate to Bolivia with her husband Heinz Arian.
In 1946 she returned to Italy and became active in the Italian Communist Party, first in Turin and then as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1968 to 1972 she was secretary of the National Commission for Education and Culture.
In 1975 she founded the Jewish bimonthly journal Ha Keillah which she directed for many years.
She wrote extensively on the history of Italy under Fascism, Latin America and Jews in Piedmont and Italy.
Giorgina Arian Levi, Giulio Disegni, Fuori dal ghetto. Il 1848 degli ebrei, Editori Riuniti, Roma 1998 ISBN 88-359-4461-9
Giorgina Arian Levi, Emanulea Viterbo, Simeone Levi. La storia sconosciuta di un noto egittologo, Ananke, Torino 2000 ISBN 88-86626-40-1
Gorgina Arian Levi, Manfredo Montagnana, I Montagnana. Una famiglia ebraica piemontese e il movimento operaio (1914-1948), Giuntina, Firenze 2000 ISBN 88-8057-109-5
Giorgina Arian Levi, Davide Viterbo, Un rabbino tunisino nei ghetti del Regno di Sardegna 1818-1830. Gli ebrei non lo gradiscono ma la corte lo protegge, Giuntina, Firenze 2006 ISBN 88-8057-273-3
Filippa Marcella, Avrei capovolto le montagne. Giorgina Levi in Bolivia (1939-1946), Firenze, Giunti, 1990
Conversazioni con Giorgina, durata 30′ di Corrado Iannelli, 2006, a cura di Officina Parini
