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\"momigliano\"<\/a>By Anna Momigliano<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently a journalist friend of mine asked me a question about the number of Jews in Italy. He was editing an article in which the author was claiming that according to \u201cofficial sources\u201d, there are only 23,000 Jews in Italy. \u201cThis seems a little strange, are there that few Jews in Italy?”, asked my editor friend. <\/p>\n

In truth the article’s author was not wrong at all \u2013 and yet, to some extent, he wasn’t \u201cright\u201d either. The \u201cofficial source\u201d he was quoting was the UCEI (Unione delle comunit\u00e0 ebraiche italiane), the umbrella organization representing Italian Jews and officially recognized by the Italian government. In 2009 UCEI issued a statement saying that its membership had recently declined \u201cfrom about 35,000 to about 23,000.\u201d So these are the official numbers. However, despite the fact that UCEI is by far Italy’s largest, most representative and most prestigious Jewish institution, the truth is that not all Jews are officially enrolled in it. Some people I know stopped being part of UCEI simply in order to avoid paying the dues \u2013 which is morally questionable behavior, but must be taken into account. Others are part of the Lubavitch community, or of a Reform congregation, both of which are not part of UCEI. So my \u201ceducated guess\u201d is that there are at least a couple of thousands Jews \u2013 meaning people halachically Jewish, born from a Jewish mother \u2013 living in Italy who are not accounted for in UCEI’s official count. <\/p>\n

Moreover if we broaden the definition of \u201cJewish\u201d to that of the State of Israel’s Law of Return \u2013 i.e. someone with at least a Jewish grandparent, this number would be much higher. Given the extremely high rate of intermarriage I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that there are more \u201chalf-Jews\u201d than Jews in Italy: most of them are eligible for aliyah and many live some sort of a Jewish life, celebrating at least Passover or Hanukkah. “In short, I responded to my editor friend, it’s hard to say exactly how many Jews are living in Italy.”
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\n*Anna Momigliano is an Italian journalist currently based in Milan.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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