The Roman Question: Black and White Nobility

The division into social classes is a characteristic that has distinguished human societies from the earliest of times. One such class is the nobility, a term derived from the Latin nobilis, distinguished person, consisting of groups or families…

WONDERFUL PIEDMONT

Piedmont is a land of mountains, forming the border between Switzerland and France. The region’s name also refers to the mountainous landscape, as “pied” stands for foot and “mont” for mountain, describing perfectly its…

The Jewish Community of Rome: the most ancient in the Diaspora world

Rome lays claim to the oldest Jewish community in Europe, Roman Jews are neither Sephardi nor Askenazi because they arrived in Rome before the Diaspora, in the II century B.C. mainly as merchants hoping to establish business ties with the powerful…

An ancient Jewish presence in Sicily: the Europe’s oldest “mikveh” of Siracusa

Sicily is one of the most attractive islands in the Mediterranean Sea and has been a hub of migration routes for millennia. Jews are thought to have settled there at least as early as the 1st century, after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction…

The ancient Jewish Community of Pitigliano, in Tuscany

In my long experience as a Tour Guide in Florence, I noticed that many American and European Jews are used to visit the Jewish part of town whenever they travel abroad; whether is Rome, Paris or Budapest, they go to synagogues, they seek out…

Five hidden gems at the Venice Ghetto

Today, no barrier or signpost marks where Venice ends and its ghetto begins, but linger long enough in the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo and you will feel the wall of the closing in. Established by decree of Doge Leonardo Lorendan on March 1516, the…

Jewish itineraries in Italy

The Jews in Italy, an age-old history The Jewish presence on the Italian Peninsula can be traced back as far as 200 B.C. during the late Roman Republic.  Epigraphs dating back to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries were found in Rome, Aquileia,…

A purple theater

It was the King's theater, commissioned by the shrewd Duke Vittorio Amedeo, to the architect Juvarra, which the "Savoy fox" brought to Turin in 1713 together with the royal crown. However, it was the architect Alfieri who gave the building the…

Piedmont – The 16 Synagogues

When émigrés from France settled in the territories of the Duchy of Savoy on the Italian side of the Alps in Italy’s northwest, they formed the foundation of a unique Jewish community rooted in Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Italian traditions.…

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