Matilde Passigli Bonaventura (1895-1984)

One of the Lives on move in the portal of the history of the brain drain under Fascism., with photos, map, timeline. From Madrid she moved to Italy, to the city of the man she had married, and so gave up teaching, acting and singing to become a wife and mother in Florence. In 1939 they fled to Jerusalem, where her husband, Professor Enzo Bonaventura, expelled from the University of Florence, had obtained a post at the Hebrew University. She too sought work for herself at once, but Matilde did not begin teaching at the University until after the proclamation of the state of Israel, or rather after she had been tragically widowed with three sons.