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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 ...
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]
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.
Gruen argues compulsory dislocation of Jews during the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE) cannot explain more than a fraction of the eventual diaspora. Rather, the Jewish diaspora during this time period was created from various factors, including through the creation of political and war refugees, enslavement, deportation, overpopulation ...
The Jewish presence in Sicily dates back to the Roman era. [1] A community of Jews, primarily composed of slaves, was established on the island prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. [2] The earliest reference to the Jewish community in Sicily appears during the time of Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). By then the ...
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
Italian-Jewish diaspora (3 C, 4 P) O. Italian Orthodox Jews (1 C) P. Jewish Italian politicians (23 P) Presidents of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (5 P) R.
Italian Jews (16 C, 20 P) T. Italian people of Tunisian-Jewish descent (1 P) Pages in category "Italian people of Jewish descent" The following 48 pages are in this ...