Career
She returned to Europe in 1946, and was one of the few women journalists to report the Nuremberg Trials. On her return to Italy, she played a major role in Interfaith dialog, and was active in Italian Centre-left politics. Zevi was President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 1983 to 1998.
Zevi was born in Milan, one of four children of a middle-class Milanese Jewish-Italian family.
Her father Giuseppe Calabi was a lawyer and prominent anti-fascist. Her brother is the mathematician Eugenio Calabi.
Zevi studied philosophy at the University of Milan and studied music the Milan Conservatory. When the Fascist government of Italy passed Anti-Jewish laws, Zevi was on holiday in Switzerland with her family.
Later they moved to France, where Zevi continued her studies at Sorbonne in Paris.
Anticipating the Fall of France, the Calabi family emigrated to the United States. In New York she met architect Bruno Zevi. The couple married in 1940.
As a journalist, Zevi reported the Nuremberg Trials.
Zevi returned to Italy in 1946. Journalism Zevi was an Italian correspondent for London based newspaper The Jewish Chronicle from 1948 to 1963 and Israeli newspaper Maariv from 1960 to 1993.
