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    The Italian Synagogue (Italian: Scuola Italiana) is one of five synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice. The Italian Synagogue was built in 1575 to...
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    Spanish Synagogue (Italian: Scola Ponentina, or Sinagoga Scuola Spagnola) is one of the two functioning synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, northern...
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    The Great German Synagogue (Italian: Scuola Grande Tedesca) is one of five synagogues in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy. Established in 1528, it is...
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    rite; the Italian, the Italian rite and the Levantine and Spanish, the Sephardic rite. Despite a few later interventions, these synagogues have remained...
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    (Great German Synagogue) Scuola Italiana (Italian Synagogue) Scuola Spagnola (Spanish Synagogue) Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue) Scuola Canton...
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    Levantine Synagogue (Italian: Scola Levantina, or Sinagoga Scuola Levantina), is a 16th-century Sephardic synagogue located in Venice, Italy. The synagogue was...
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    The Canton Synagogue (Italian: Scuola Canton) is one of five synagogues in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy. Established only four years after the nearby...
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  • and 1914) many Italian Jews moved to Israel, and there is an Italian synagogue and cultural centre in Jerusalem. Around 7,700 Italian Jews were deported...
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    The Italian Synagogue of Padua is the only synagogue still in use of the several that flourished in the university town of Padua from the Renaissance through...
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    The Republic of Venice (Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was...
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    Museum of Venice (Italian: Museo Ebraico di Venezia) is a museum focusing on the history of Jews in the city of Venice. The Jewish Museum of Venice was founded...
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    Fondazione Querini Stampalia Forte di Sant'Andrea Giardinetti Reali Italian Synagogue Loggette di San Marco Mercerie Mulino Stucky Murano Glass Museum Museo...
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    in Italy numbered around 45–46,000 people, decreased to 42,850 in 2015 (36,150 with Italian citizenship) and to 41,200 in 2017 (36,600 with Italian citizenship...
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    Renaissance synagogues, of which a few survive. In Italy, there were many synagogues in the style of the Italian Renaissance (see Leghorn; Padua; and Venice). With...
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    of Venice. Founded in the 1490s by Spanish Jews. The Italian Synagogue located in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice. Founded in 1575. The Padua Synagogue located...
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    business transporting goods from the Orient to Venice. During World War II, Italian Fascists ransacked the synagogue and destroyed various religious objects...
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    The Eldridge Street Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street, in the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in...
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    The Umberto Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art is an institution dedicated to preserving the heritage and culture of Italian Jewry, which opened in Jerusalem...
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    Parochet (category Synagogue architecture)
    synagogue from 1926, today in Bielsko-Biała synagogue, Poland Early-17th-century parochet from Cairo, Egypt 1698 linen and silk parochet from Venice,...
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  • in Italy and 250 total speakers today. The language is one of the Italian languages and one of the Jewish Romance Languages. Some words have Italian prefixes...
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  • rites survived in modern Italy. The Spanish Synagogue (Scola Spagnola) of Venice was originally regarded as the "mother synagogue" for the Spanish and Portuguese...
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    Trani (category Territories of the Republic of Venice)
    main Italian Maritime Republics (Amalfi, Pisa, Genova and Venice) established themselves in Trani. Trani, in turn, maintained a consul in Venice from...
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    Church Synagogues Tofre Begadim Synagogue (Schneider Synagogue) (used today as an art gallery) Italian Synagogue Zulfaris Synagogue Or Hodeş Synagogue, built...
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    Jews in Venice History of the Jews in the Roman Empire Rothschild banking family of Naples "Jewish & Kosher Naples, Napoli - Campania - Italy - www.jewisheurope...
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    be a synagogue, is constructed. This towering granite spire was for a period in time the tallest building in the whole world. 1950s – The Italian economic...
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    Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (category 18th-century Italian rabbis)
    prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was born in 1707 in the Jewish ghetto of Padua, Republic of Venice. The son...
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    it was commonly called "New Jerusalem". The 1896 Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, a Grade II listed building and headquarters of the British Sephardi community...
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  • di Venezia (Venice). See also: List of synagogues in Italy [it] Jamaica: Shaare Shalom Synagogue (Kingston) Japan: Ohel Shelomoh Synagogue (Kobe) Jordan:...
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    Cum nimis absurdum (category Jewish Italian history)
    There was to be no more than one synagogue in each state, territory and domain. It forbade the construction of new synagogues, and decreed the demolition of...
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    Leon of Modena (category 17th-century Republic of Venice rabbis)
    popular interest. He died in Venice in 1648. Among his deepest interests was music. He served as cantor at the synagogue in Venice for more than forty years...
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