In recent years, a growing number of Italian Marranos as well as others of Jewish descent throughout southern Italy and Sicily have begun to return to their roots. Source Jewish Communities of Italy J-Italy Website. History of Jews in Italy Wikipedia List of Italian Jews Wikipedia Jews in the Army of the Kingdom of Italy (1848-1923) Italian Jewish History 200BCE - Jews in It...
The history of the Jewish Community of Venice , which is the capital of the Veneto region of Italy has been well known since the medieval era.Beginning in 1516, the Republic obliged the Jews to live in an area of the city where the foundries, known in Venetian as "geti", had been situated in ancient times, to wear a sign of identification and to manage the city's pawnshops at rates established ...