Italian Jewry
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 Jews of Ferrara.
An illuminated manuscript reflecting the Roman Jewish rite.
For a word that is, in terms of its linguistic history, a relatively recent one, ghetto’s origins have been an unusual source of contention and uncertainty.
Dickdook with Judah Monis.