Distribution of Jews in Italy
Information
The best resource on the Jews in Italy is found on this
website.
The number of Jews that lived in Italy has a few lines of thought:
- 10-15 synagogues in Rome in the Roman period. At that moment Christianity had not yet arrived in Rome. More than 40 locations had a Jewish populaton.
- Only one period in one region had a large Jewish population. This was in Sicily after the Jews were expelled from Spain.
- The website shows the size of the Jewish population after about 1600 in the major Jewish centers.
- The numbers show a small change in comparison with the numbers of Benjamin de Tuleda in 1170.
Another websitei with interesting estimates on number of Jewish people in Italy in early and later Roman times.
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