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"The Jews in Rome during the Flavian Period." Antichthon 47:156–172. Pucci Ben Zeev, Miriam. 1998. Jewish Rights in the Roman World: The Greek and Roman Documents Quoted by Josephus Flavius. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr. Rutgers, Leonard Victor. 2000. The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora.
Map of Rome showing the Ghetto in yellow. The Renaissance period, spanning from the 14th to the 17th century, was a time of significant cultural, artistic, and intellectual revival in Europe. For the Jewish community in Rome, this era was marked by both opportunities for cultural contributions and episodes of severe persecution. [6]
Medieval French Jewish vassal state, 768–900 CE (purportedly established during the Reconquista) Brutakhi, early 13th century Turkic polity whose Jewishness is debatable; possibly either a Khazar remnant state or Jewish splinter state from the Cuman-Kipchak Confederation
B. L. Benas, Records of the Jews in Rome and their Inscriptions from Ancient Catacombs, Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 1895; L'Abbe Jean-Joseph Gaume, Les Trois Rome, journal d'un Voyage en Italie, Gaume Freres, 1847; William Ingraham Kip, The Catacombs of Rome; as illustrating the Church of the first three Centuries, Redfield, 1854
A notable early event in the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire was the 63 BCE siege of Jerusalem, where Pompey had interfered in the Hasmonean civil war. Jews have had a significant presence in European cities and countries since the fall of the Roman Empire, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and ...
The Jews under Roman Rule from Pompey to Diocletian. SBL Press. ISBN 978-90-04-50204-8. Taylor, Joan E. (2012). The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-55448-5. Tropper, Amram (2016). Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method.
The ancient Jewish philosopher Philo gives the number of Jewish inhabitants in Egypt as one million, one-eighth of the population. Alexandria was by far the most important of the Egyptian Jewish communities. The Jews in the Egyptian diaspora were on a par with their Ptolemaic counterparts and close ties existed for them with Jerusalem.
This is a list of Italian locations of Jewish history. The first Jews arrived in Italy more than 2000 years ago and to this day have an unbroken presence in Italy. Today, Italian Jews can be found nearly all regions of Italy.