Posts Tagged ‘ Jewish Italy ’

A Catty Epitaph: The Mourner of the Old Jewish Cemetery, Florence

June 16, 2010

Outside the gates of Florence, there is a small Jewish cemetery – crumbled and broken gravestones can be read only by a familiar eye. In this nearly abandoned and neglected place, the walls are high and visitors few. Long ago, Jews could not be buried within the city, and this crumpled, pocketed patch of land [...]


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BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)