The theme uniting the essays reprinted here is the attitude of the medieval Church, and in particular the papacy, towards the Jewish... Læs mere
Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers: they spoke (Roman) Italian, and ate and dressed as did other Romans.
Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome’s ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat.... Læs mere