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This paper intends to reconstruct the climate of Turin where he lived and worked Giuseppe Levi, the particular figures which animated the subalpine universities in the fascist period, the fruitful interaction between Jewish and anti-fascist world. Particular attention will be devoted to the different reactions of the Jewish community during the confidence to fascism in 1931 oath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the historical framework for the events leading up to the 1931 oath of allegiance to the Fascist government, which all of Italy's university professors were required to sign, and how Turin's professor of anatomy Giuseppe Levi and the Roman mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita responded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]