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Kerakh shel romi (City of Rome)
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The Bah (Bayit Hadash) was asked concerning the practice in synagogues of using music which is sung in the houses of worship (of non-Jews). It is only forbidden regarding…

Contributor:

Israel Moses Ḥazan

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1850

Subjects:

Music, Christian-Jewish relations, Synagogue, Apostasy, Sephardic

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Pedagogy & Schooling
Sefer ha-zikuk (The Book of Expurgation)
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1. Whenever the term idolaters appears, and it is not clearly referring…

Contributor:

Domenico Gerosolomitano

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1596

Subjects:

Translation, Polemics, Christian-Jewish relations, Christianity, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts
Leḥem Yehudah (The Bread of Judah): On the Fate of the First Edition
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I printed my book [Leḥem Yehudah] in Venice at the beginning of for the Almighty Shadai [in gematria = 1553] has dealt very bitterly with me (Ruth 1:20) and the ruler of Rome [the Pope] decreed that…

Contributor:

Judah Lerma

Places:

Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1554

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Pogroms, Writing, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts