hic et nunc

 Tullia Zevi, who fled Fascism as a teenager and led Italy’s Jewish community during a period of improving relations with the Vatican, died on Saturday in Rome.

In the book of interviews, Ms. Zevi said that she did not believe in an afterlife and that she had lived her life with one guiding idea: “hic et nunc,” Latin for “here and now.”

“What we have to do is here,” she said. “The rest is just hypothetical.”

 [“Ti Racconto la Mia Storia” (“I’ll Tell You My Story”), a 2007 book of conversations with her granddaughter.]