20190406 Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
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Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
The Great Synagogue of Rome, Tempio Maggiore di Roma, constructed shortly after the unification of Italy in 1870, when the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome and the Papal States ceased to exist, was unexpectedly visited on 13th April 1986 by Pope John Paul II, making it the first known visit by a pope to a synagogue since the early history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2010 the synagogue hosted a visit from Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis visited the synagogue in January 2016. A sign in the foreground commemorates two year old Stefano Gaj Taché, murdered in a 1982 terrorist attack carried out by armed Palestinian terrorists at the entrance to the Great Synagogue of Rome. An additional 37 civilians were injured.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
A Jewish tourist cleans and shines a brass plaque embedded in the cobblestones at Campo de' Fiori, 'field of flowers', square. The plaque, laid in 2011 in the square which serves as a marketplace, commemorates the 1553, confiscation and burning of every copy of the Talmud in Italy, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology, by the ruling papacy.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
Brass cobblestone sized memorials, referred to as stolpersteine in German, literally translated to 'stumbling stones' are installed outside the last residences of victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig in 1992 and inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution, today more than 70,000 of these brass cobblestones have been installed throughout Croatia, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands and Russia.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
The Great Synagogue of Rome, Tempio Maggiore di Roma, constructed shortly after the unification of Italy in 1870, when the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome and the Papal States ceased to exist, was unexpectedly visited on 13th April 1986 by Pope John Paul II, making it the first known visit by a pope to a synagogue since the early history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2010 the synagogue hosted a visit from Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis visited the synagogue in January 2016.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
Brass cobblestone sized memorials, referred to as stolpersteine in German, literally translated to 'stumbling stones' are installed outside the last residences of victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig in 1992 and inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution, today more than 70,000 of these brass cobblestones have been installed throughout Croatia, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands and Russia.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
The Great Synagogue of Rome, Tempio Maggiore di Roma, constructed shortly after the unification of Italy in 1870, when the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome and the Papal States ceased to exist, was unexpectedly visited on 13th April 1986 by Pope John Paul II, making it the first known visit by a pope to a synagogue since the early history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2010 the synagogue hosted a visit from Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis visited the synagogue in January 2016.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
Brass cobblestone sized memorials, referred to as stolpersteine in German, literally translated to 'stumbling stones' are installed outside the last residences of victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig in 1992 and inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution, today more than 70,000 of these brass cobblestones have been installed throughout Croatia, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands and Russia.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
A Jewish tourist cleans and shines a brass plaque embedded in the cobblestones at Campo de' Fiori, 'field of flowers', square. The plaque, laid in 2011 in the square which serves as a marketplace, commemorates the 1553, confiscation and burning of every copy of the Talmud in Italy, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology, by the ruling papacy.
Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Rome
Brass cobblestone sized memorials, referred to as stolpersteine in German, literally translated to 'stumbling stones' are installed outside the last residences of victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig in 1992 and inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution, today more than 70,000 of these brass cobblestones have been installed throughout Croatia, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands and Russia.