‘Sotto un altro cielo’: l’emigrazione dei matematici ebrei dall’Italia fascista

Racial laws, which determined for Italian Jews the loss of civil and political rights, and the complete banishment from scientific and academic arenas, triggered a series of institutional, epistemic and social changes in high culture and scholarship. Emigration is among them. In this paper we will provide an overview of the phenomenon of Jewish mathematical diaspora from fascist Italy after 1938, both in relation to its global features and to the individual exile experiences of G. Fubini, G. Fano, B. Segre, A. Terracini and B. Levi, who looked for a space of intellectual survival abroad and eventually succeeded in reconstructing their lives and scientific careers in U.S., Switzerland, UK and South America.