ROME — Italian Jewish leaders voiced solidarity with former member of parliament Arturo Scotto, who was punched in the face by youths shouting about Anne Frank in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square on New Year’s Eve.
Police in Venice are investigating …
POMPEII, Italy — In the gift shop at the Pompeii archaeological site, tourists might notice a book entitled, “The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix.”
Dedicated “to the Jewish victims of the eruption of …
By David Ruben
Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography by Martin Goodman (Princeton University Press, £20)
Flavius Josephus, son of Matthias haKohen, better known as Josephus, was well known to many earlier generations of Jews through a popular book wrongly …
By CBS staff*
During the Holocaust, an entire generation of talented musicians, composers and virtuosos died, but their musical legacy lives on thanks largely to the extraordinary efforts of Francesco Lotoro. An Italian composer and pianist who converted to Judaism, …
By Frances D’Emilio*
Piero Terracina, described as the last survivor among the Roman Jews who were deported from the Italian capital to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died at 91.
Terracina died on Sunday, Rome’s Jewish Community …
By TOI staff*
A posthumous award was granted Tuesday in Jerusalem to the former chief rabbi of Florence who was a leader of the Italian city’s Jewish-Christian underground rescue network during the Holocaust.
The Committee to Recognize the Heroism of …
By Ansa staff*
The city of Rome on Thursday changed the names of two streets devoted to Edoardo Zavattari and Arturo Donaggio, who were among the Italian scientists to sign Benito Mussolini’s racial laws in 1938 and which led to …
By Elana Horwich
Jews have a long history in Italy. In fact, Rome has Europe’s oldest Jewish community. When the Roman Empire conquered Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, it sent the Jewish people from their holy land into the Diaspora, with …
By Eleanor Foa*
My father, an Italian Jew, used to say that “family is everything,” yet I knew very little about the history of the Foà family. That changed when, in his retirement, my father wrote a forty-page family memoir …
By Ansa staff
Ruth Dureghello, the president of Rome’s Jewish Community, on Thursday expressed dismay that the rightwing League and Brothers of Italy (FdI) parties and Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia (FI) did not vote in favour of creating an …