The Jewish community, although representing a very small percentage of the Italian population, has been continuously present in our peninsula for about 2200 years. In the ancient Rome, approximately in the 4th a. C., out of a total of 800 thousand people, it was estimated that there were 40 thousand Jews.
Looking ahead a few millennia, we realize that out of a large number of inhabitants, there were only ten thousand more Jews. This number was destined to grow thanks to the arrival of the Jews expelled from Spain following the measure put in place by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1492 (the so-called “Expulsion of the Marrani”).
