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> Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula Wait, so the name „ghetto“ wasn’t contrived there? Snark aside, is there any pr
by woodpanel 2y ago
> Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula
Wait, so the name „ghetto“ wasn’t contrived there?
Snark aside, is there any proof or qualification delivered with that quite important yet ambiguous side node, that there supposedly wasn’t any significant jewish presence in Italy?
- adastra22 2y agoDepends on how you define a “big population,” no? Prior to 1492 a lot of Jews had been driven out of Italy, and the remaining communities were quite small. Italian city states took in a lot of Jewish refugees from Spain after the 1492 expulsion. The first ghetto was in 1516. But that doesn’t line up with Columbus’ chronology.