The mainstream Orthodox Jewish community is embracing tiny communities in southern Italy of Jews who are embracing a religion that went underground during the Inquisition. SAN NICANDRO GARGANICO, ...

In 1944, at the height of Germany's Final Solution, the Nazi phrase for what would be the attempted extermination of the entire Jewish people, the Germans had moved into northern Italy.

The prospect has unnerved many Italian Jews, even as several of their leaders appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to Meloni’s leadership, refraining from making public statements about ...

Last year, forensic expert Miguel Lorente said a test of the bones on view at Seville Cathedral indicated that Christopher ...

A landmark study of the forces shaping Fascist Italy’s policies toward Jews in occupied territories during World War II. The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global ...

Notwithstanding later rationalizations, the laws were administered with a high degree of severity and resulted in serious damage to the Italian Jewish community. Written from the perspective of an ...

These exiting new two-hour tours “How Jewish is Roman Jewish History” will be launched January 1, 2025. For more information ...

unique and forgotten Jewish community – the Jews of Italy. Having completed his studies at the Gymnasium of Brody, R. Moshe Levi Ehrenreich (1818-1899), drawn by the esteemed reputation of ...

Sandwiched between the Tiber River and Campo de' Fiori is a neighborhood that was historically home to Rome's Jewish population, the oldest Jewish community in Europe. A papal edict in 1555 ...

A landmark study of the forces shaping Fascist Italy’s policies toward Jews in occupied territories during World War II. The Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 plunged the world into its second global ...