Writer Elena Ferrante is daughter of Holocaust survivor, says journalist The mysterious best-selling Italian author has been identified by an Italian investigative journalist as Rome-based Anita Raja, a translator who specializes in translating from German into Italian.
First Babylonian Talmud in Italian publishing initial volume The Rosh Hashanah tractate will be ceremonially presented to Italy’s president on April 5, five years from the start of the state-funded project.
The Jewish translator behind Elena Ferrante — and Primo Levi Ann Goldstein — whose "day job" is as an editor at the New Yorker — is the woman behind the success, in English, of the elusive Italian author.
