Jewish Rome (l’ospitalità è sacra)

Jewish Rome (l’ospitalità è sacra) July 20, 2016

I then made my way along the Tiber and across Tiber Island.

Island in the Tiber

That takes you to the ghetto in which a papal decree in the 16th century forced Jews in Rome to live. One of the first signs that I had arrived was a proselytizing sign in Hebrew on a church, Santa Maria della Pietà.

Hebrew on church in Rome


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