Reguer Sara - The Most Tenacious Of Minorities The Jews Of Italy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community focusing on their economic intellectual and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy. Over the centuries these localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German Provencal Sephardic and most recently Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution ghetto - ization and the Holocaust the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps illustrations sidebars and primary sources this book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proud to be Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.
Title: The Most Tenacious Of Minorities The Jews Of Italy
Author(s): Reguer Sara
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Barcode: 9781644690307
Pages: 240 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 2/8/2019
Category: Jewish Studies