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Since 1442, when the Kingdom of Naples came under Spanish rule, considerable numbers of Sephardi Jews came to live in Southern Italy. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, from Portugal in 1495 and from the Kingdom of Naples in 1533, many moved to central and northern Italy. One famous refugee was Isaac Abarbanel.
The Jewish community in Rome is likely one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world, existing from classical times until today. [ 2 ] Most certainly, it is known that in 139 BCE, Simon Maccabeus sent a Hasmonean embassy to Rome in order to strengthen his alliance with the Roman Republic against the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom ...
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In 2007, the Jewish Museum of Florence was opened and there is a walking tour guide of Florence's Jewish history. [11] Today, the population of the Jewish community of Florence is over 800, and the Great Synagogue is the only orthodox one still in use. [4] In 2009, a rudimentary bomb was discovered outside the Chabad House in Florence. The bomb ...
Italy portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Italian people of European-Jewish descent (7 C) * Italian Jews (16 C ...
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.
Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only ...
This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .