Ca' Foscari University- Venice (Italy)
Ca' Cappello- S. Polo 2035
30125 VENEZIA
Tel. +39-041-528.72.20
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1947….born in Venice
1970….postgraduate degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Ca’ Foscari University
1971…grant
1971…lecturer in Ca’ Foscari University
1981.... professor in Modern Jewish Studies in Ca’ Foscari Univeristy.
1989 February-. Seminaries in l'EHESS(Ecole de Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales ) in Paris, lectures at Societé d'études juives in Paris
1990, February- Lecture in Centre d'études juives, University Paris IV
1991 January-Visiting professor in l'INALCO/ Paris
1994, Apr-May -Visiting professor at SOAS (London)
1996 November- Visiting professor at UCL (London)
1996-8 European coordinator for a Masters program approuved by UE in “Crossing the Mediterranean: cultural mediation towards investment and integration”
1998, March-Apr- Visiting professor at Oxford University
1998, Nov-Dec- Visiting professor at INALCO/Paris
 1999 October- Visiting professor in Milwaukee- University of Wisconsin
2000 March -Visiting professor in Granada
2000 April-Seminary in EHESS (Paris)
Organisation of  Conferences
1991 "Jewish culture and European culture: relationships"- Venice University
1991 "The other in Contemporary Arabic and Hebrew Literature”-
Venice University
1993 "Between Africa and Zion" – Venice University
1995 " Jewish Education in Italy from the Racial Laws up to now" (in collaboration)
Verona University
1996 Erasmus Week "Jerusalem as a real and imaginary city in the collective consciousness of Europe"- Venice University
1997
1998  1998 Conference on “Crossing the Mediterranean/Masters program, Venice University
1999  1998 "The Wandering Jews of Ethiopia" (in collaboration)- Milan University
Internationals tasks
Responsable for the European Erasmus Project in Modern Jewish Studies/ Venice Univeristy
President of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry - SOSTEJE
Vice-president of the International Academic Committee of Mercaz le-Yahadut Etiopiah in Israel
European Coordinator of the European Masters program “Crossing the Mediterranean”

Belonging to Scientific Societies
Istituto per l’Oriente (1972) Amici dell’Università di Gerusalemme (1978), Brit Ivrit Olamit (1981), Worls Union of Jwish Studies (1988) Societé d’etudes juives (1990), Sosteje (Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry) (1991), AFSR (Association française de sociologie religeuse) (1994), European Association for Jewish Studies (1994), Association for Israeli Studies (1996)
Publications
BOOKS:
1977 La "Verità da Eres Yisrael " di Ahad ha-Am, Napoli (Suppl. n. 10 "Annalidell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli"), p. 83.
1984 Gli ebrei caraiti tra etnia e religione, Roma, Carucci, p. 247.
1987 Allo specchio dei Falascia: ebrei ed etnologi durante il colonialismo fascista, Firenze, La Giuntina, p. 166.
1989 Morte del senso e senso della morte nel primo racconto di A. B. Yehoshua, Firenze, La Giuntina, p. 89.
1992 Les Caraites: un autre:judaisme, Paris, Albin Michel, p. 152.
1995 Postfazione, traduzione e note a Sh.Y. Agnon, Racconti di Kippur, Firenze, La Giuntina, p. 122.
BOOK EDITOR
1993 (A cura di) R.Dorigo Ceccato, T.Parfitt, E.Trevisan Semi, L'altro visto dall'altro: letteratura araba ed ebraica a confronto, Milano, Libreria Cortina, p 140.
1995 (Eds.) S.Kaplan, T.Parfitt, E.Trevisan Semi, Between Africa and Zion. Proceedings of the first International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, p. 257.
1998 (Eds.) T. Parfitt and E. Trevisan Semi, The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel Studies on the Ethiopian Jews, London, Curzon Press, p. 304.

ARTICLES [Selection]:

1989 "L'oscillation ethnique: le cas des Caraites pendant la seconde guerre mondiale", Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 206, pp. 377-398.
1990 "The Image of the Karaites in Nazi and Vichy France Documents", The Jewish Journal of sociology, 32, pp. 81-93.
1991 "A Brief Survey of Present-Day Karaite Communities in Europe", The Jewish Journal of sociology, 33, pp. 97-106.
1993-4 (En collaboration avec Anna Maria Piussi), "L'education dans les communautés juives d'Italie, Yod, 36-37, pp. 83-97.
1994 "The Crimean Karaites as seen by the French Jewish Press in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century", in Proceedings of the Eleventh Word Congress of Jewish Studies, vol. III, Jerusalem, pp. 9-16.
1995. "Le Seder lo mesuddar dans la Páque des Caraites contemporains: une analyse du processus de transformation", Les Cahiers d'etudes juives, 3, pp. 5-21.
1996. "The Shibbolet of Complexity: a Theoretical Approach to the Study of Ethiopian Jewry", in S. Kaplan, T.Parfitt, E. Trevisan Semi (eds.), Between Africa and Zion. Proceedings of the first International Congress of the Society for the Study of ethiopian Jewry, Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, pp. 28-32.
"The Dainelli and Viterbo Missions among the Falashas (1937-37)", in S.
Kaplan, T.Parfitt, E.Trevisan Semi (eds.), Between Africa and Zion Proceedings of the first International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, pp. 72-79.
1997. "The ideology of "Regeneration" and the "Beta Israel" at the beginning of the XXth Century", Revue européenne des études hébraiques, 2, pp. 141-154.
1998.
Faitlovitch, Margulies and the Alliance:which educational policy for the Ethiopian Jews in 1907?", in A.Crown (ed.), Noblesse oblige: Scholarship and Community. Essays in honour of David Kessler, London, Mitchell.
1999"From Wolleqa to Florence: the Tragic Story of Faitlovitch's Pupil Hizkiahu Finkas" in T.Parfitt and E.Trevisan Semi (eds), The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and IsraeL Studies on the Ethiopian Jews, London, Curzon, pp. 15-39.
 
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
-(co-author) Judaising Movements, London, Curzon, 2000.
-L’epistolario di Taamrat Emmanuel: un intellettuale ebreo d’Etiopia e l’Italia nella prima metà del secolo, Torino, L’Harmattan, 2000.