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Italian people of Asian-Jewish descent (3 C) Italian people of European-Jewish descent (7 C) * Italian Jews (16 C, 20 P) T. Italian people of Tunisian-Jewish descent ...
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The Italian Jewish community as a whole has numbered no more than 50,000 since it was fully emancipated in 1870. During the Second Aliyah (between 1904 and 1914) many Italian Jews moved to Israel, and there is an Italian synagogue and cultural centre in Jerusalem. Around 7,700 Italian Jews were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. [3]
Elvio Sadun (1918-1974), Italian-American scientist and WWII Italian partisan; Safdie brothers, American independent film directors; Fortuna Safdié (1958-), Brazilian singer, composer and Ladino-Revivalist. Haym Salomon (1740-1785), Polish-born American businessman who helped finance the American Revolutionary War; Roberto Saviano (1979 ...
In 2007 the Jewish population in Italy numbered around 45–46,000 people, decreased to 42,850 in 2015 (36,150 with Italian citizenship) and to 41,200 in 2017 (36,600 with Italian citizenship and 25–28,000 affiliated with the Union of Italian Jewish Communities), mainly because of low birth rates and emigration due to the financial crisis ...
Eugenio Calò (1906–1944), Jewish partisan awarded the gold medal for military valour, murdered by the Nazis; Angelo Donati (1885–1960), banker who protected Jews in Southern France during Italian occupation in 1942–43; Mario Finzi (1913–1945), partisan (murdered in Auschwitz in 1945) Camila Giorgi (born 1991), tennis player
The Great Synagogue of Florence (Italian: Tempio Maggiore Israelitico di Firenze) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located at Via Luigi Carlo Farini 4, in Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. Designed in the Italian and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was completed in 1882. [1]
While the evidence of Jews living in Tuscany in the Roman Era is scant, [3] Benjamin of Tudela recorded finding a Jewish community in Florence when he visited in 1159. [1] The history of the Jews in Florence really begins with Italian Jews from the south emigrating to Florence and the Tuscan region by the beginning of the 14th century. Many ...