A journey into Italian Jewish history.
Without the protection of a sovereign state, Jewish slaves were subject to cruelty and extortion.
Twelve-century-old mikvahs and a drowned cemetery.
Preserving Venice’s historic synagogues.
A tale of the Italian Holocaust—and an appreciation for liberty.
The teenager completed the illustrated manuscript in March 1767.
Penitential prayers from Piove di Sacco.
His medical school had a special diploma for Jewish students.
Samuel David Luzzatto.
A new exhibit at the British Museum.
The plague in Padua.
Mixed Messages.
An Italian Yiddish was never in the cards, as the case of “Judeo-Mantuan” makes clear, because Jews were more closely integrated into Italian society than they were in Eastern Europe.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.