Italy

Europe should put an end to the burgeoning economic bonanza.

Giulio Maria Terzi
Dec. 30 2016 12:01AM

Why are my friend’s Italian neighbors calling a house a bayta?

Nov. 9 2016 12:01AM

Syndrome K.

Caitln Hu
July 21 2016 12:01AM

Covering nude statues and taking wine off the menu.

Franck Salameh
Jan. 29 2016 12:01AM

Don’t heed smears of dual loyalty.

Ruthie Blum
Aug. 17 2015 12:01AM

The Italian humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was among the first of many Renaissance Christian thinkers to become interested in Jewish mysticism. David Navarro reviews. . .

David Navarro
Jan. 7 2015 12:01AM

The British Pre-Raphaelites wanted to turn back the artistic and cultural clock; the Italian Futurists wanted to turn it (violently) forward. What do Jews and Christians want?

Daniel Ross Goodman
Aug. 27 2014 12:01AM

To most Italians, risking one’s life in battle is almost unthinkable; two brave Italian Jews currently serving in the IDF think differently, and better. 

Fiamma Nirenstein
Aug. 4 2014 12:01AM

French Jews are under attack in today’s Europe. In Italy, however, their co-religionists are flourishing—thanks, in part, to a tradition of self-reliance. 

Michael Ledeen
July 25 2014 12:01AM

The finding of a ritual bath dating back to the Byzantine period, thought to be the oldest in Europe, has helped spur a revival of. . .

Giovanni Frazzetto
June 17 2014 12:01AM

For one 16th-century child of forced converts, being a Christian in Antwerp alternated with being a Jew in Venice—until being caught and tried by the Inquisition.

Renée Levine Melammed
June 10 2014 12:01AM

A recently rediscovered painting depicts the abduction of a Jewish child by church authorities 150 years ago in an incident that changed the course of Italian and Jewish history.

Maya Benton
Dec. 19 2013 12:00AM

Amid the joyous clamor of today’s ex-ghetto, the voices of its last inhabitants, hunted down by Nazi soldiers in October 1943, can still be heard.

David Laskin
July 16 2013 12:00AM

The 17th-century Venetian rabbi Leone da Modena pulled off, at age thirteen, a literary marvel: a Hebrew poem that sounds and means almost the same. . .

July 8 2013 12:00AM