Tag: Italy

Calabria's picturesque Tropea in Italy offers a divine travel experience, featuring beautiful beaches, ancient legends, and local cuisine.
Saul Steinberg, a Romanian architecture student and cartoonist, found himself interned in Villa Tonelli, Italy during the early 1940s under fascist rule, facing troubles due to growing antisemitism and expulsion orders.
Boccione, the renowned bakery in the Roman Ghetto, is famous for its ricotta crostatas, particularly the one with sour cherry jam, which is more popular.
Italy's government has unanimously approved a bill to establish a Holocaust museum in Rome, 80 years after over 1,000 Roman Jews were rounded up and deported to be exterminated.
"The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" by Jessica M. Marglin is a study of a 19th-century court case in Italy that explores the complexities of Jewish identity and citizenship.
A new book by historian Carlo Vecce suggests that Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was a Circassian Jew who was abducted as a teenager and sold as a sex slave multiple times before being freed in Florence at age 15.
Nidaa Badwan, an artist who escaped repression in Gaza and now lives in Italy, is creating a sculpture inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman killed in Iran during protests over the required wearing of a hijab.
The author shares two stories about visiting Venice, one from 35 years ago and one more recent, both involving misadventures and delays.
Chanie Apfelbaum, the founder of the Busy in Brooklyn kosher food blog, recently returned from a trip to Italy that had a profound impact on her approach to food.
In this article, Véronique Mottier, a scholar at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, explores the relationship between xenophobic nationalist parties in Europe and their supposed commitment to gender equality and women's rights.
The author, a Jewish Russian immigrant, reflects on his family's ski vacation in the Dolomites in 2017.
In this article, the author explores the experiences of Jewish physicians during the Bubonic Plague in 1631 in Padua, Italy.
Dr. Norman Doidge reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of history and neuroscience, drawing parallels to the Great Plague of London and Machiavelli's insights on recognizing and addressing crises early.
In the 16th century, Jews fleeing the Medicis' ghettos found refuge in Pitigliano, a town in Tuscany, where they thrived, making up a significant portion of the population.
Dr. Shira Klein delves into her book "Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism" on the Tel Aviv Review, challenging the widespread belief of Italian love for Jews.
Dr. Shira Klein, a modern history professor at Chapman University, challenges the belief that Italians have always been supportive of Jews in her book "Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism."
Aurea Vazquez Rijos, a Puerto Rican woman, was found guilty of murder in the U.S. for hiring a hitman to kill her husband, Adam Anhang, after he requested a divorce.
The author, through exploring family memorabilia and historical documents, uncovers the story of their Sephardic great-great-grandmother, Rivca Alhadeff, who was born in 1870 on the Isle of Rhodes and perished in Auschwitz in 1944.
Italian Jews, in collaboration with IsraAID, have been providing assistance to the homeless victims of the earthquakes in central Italy that occurred in late August and October, resulting in nearly 300 deaths and leaving many without homes.