Diana Pinto (born 1949) is an

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and writer living in Paris. The daughter of

Italian Jewish Italian Jews ( it, Ebrei Italiani, he, יהודים איטלקים ''Yehudim Italkim'') or Roman Jews ( it, Ebrei Romani, he, יהודים רומים ''Yehudim Romim'') can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living in or with roots in I ...

parents, she is married to the French

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and a resident of France.

Life

She was educated in the United States and is a graduate of

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where she obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History. After the fall of the

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, she became the editor-in-chief of Belvédère, France's first

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review for a general public. She also worked as a Consultant to the Political Directorate of the

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-based

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for its

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. She has been a

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Fellow, a Fellow of the

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, of Collegium Budapest in Hungary and of the Einstein Forum in

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. She is a founder member of the

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. As a Senior Fellow and a board member of the London-based

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she has been working on a project of "Jewish voices for the European res publica".

Publications

Amongst others, Diana Pinto published a reader on ''Contemporary Italian Sociology'' (1981) and the autobiographical book ''Entre deux mondes'' (Between two worlds, 1991). She has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent's pluralist challenges. Her articles have been published across Eastern and Western Europe. In 1996 she published an internationally debated policy paper on ''A new Jewish identity for post-

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Europe'', claiming that post-

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Europe could be turned "into the third pillar of a world Jewish identity at the cross-roads of a newly interpreted past, and a pluralist and democratic future". In 2013, Harvard University Press published Pinto's psychological, symbolic portrait of "postmodern" Israeli society,
''Israel Has Moved.''

Partial bibliography

* ''Contemporary Italian Sociology. A Reader.'' Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, * ''Entre deux mondes.'' Édition Odile Jacob, Paris 1991, * ''The great European sea change.'' Dædalus 121, 4 (1992), 129–150. * ''Israël a déménagé.'' Editions Stock, Paris 2012, * ''The Jewish World’s Ambiguous Attitude toward European Integration''. In: Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi (Ed.):
The Jewish Contribution to European Integration
'. Lexington Books, Lanham MD 2019,

References

External links

* ttp://www.hagalil.com/bet-debora/golem/identity.htm ''Towards European Jewish Identity'' HaGalil, undated
''The great European sea change''
The Free Library, 1992
''Potsdamer Platz versus Aschenbach. Two paradigms of Jewish life in Europe''
European Association for Jewish Culture, 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinto, Diana Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1949 births American people of Italian-Jewish descent Jewish American historians Living people Writers from Paris 21st-century American Jews American women historians