La comunità ebraica di Pitigliano dal XVI al XX secolo
Autore: Roberto G. Salvadori
Numero di pagine: 156The Jews of Pitigliano, Tuscany, enjoyed almost equal rights with the Christians under the counts of Orsini. When the county passed to the Medici, the Jews became prey to the same anti-Jewish measures as in all of Tuscany: enclosure in a ghetto (1622), the yellow badge, segregation from Christians, and compulsory sermons. Under the house of Lorena, beginning in 1765, their situation improved, as well as under the French occupation (1799) and the Restoration, when they achieved emancipation. A Jewish question was "reinvented" by the fascists in 1938: most of Pitigliano's Jews emigrated; a few were deported to Fossoli and Auschwitz in April-June 1944.