Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist.

Jewish excellence in musical theater, three centuries before Irving Berlin.

David Nieto.

The coveted position of “preacher to the Jews.”

Elia Benamozegh.

An exhibit includes a 16th-century Yiddish version of a Latin anatomy textbook.

A new Torah scroll, 530 years after the expulsion.

The columns of Ferrara.

After being captured by a converso friar-turned-pirate.

Loans, schmattes, and medical care.

Syndrome K.

They succeed most when they feel like home.

A journey into Italian Jewish history.

Without the protection of a sovereign state, Jewish slaves were subject to cruelty and extortion.