The Roman ghetto is located on left bank of the Tiber, between the island Tiberine and the Campidoglio. It is delimited by the "via delle one Botteghe Oscure" in north, it "via Arenula" in the west, the Tiber in the east and the theatre of Marcellus in the west. It is the place of an old Jewish establishment. The ghetto to be strictly accurate goes up at 1556, under the pope Paul IV: the Jews were constrained every evening to return in the enclosure of the ghetto, with curfew. The curfew was removed in 1848, and the walls of the ghetto broke down at the time of the Italian reunification. Today, the Jewish presence remains, with a synagogue close to the Tiber.
The synagogue of Rome
The large synagogue of Rome - the Tempio - is set up between 1901 and 1904
The Jewish community recalls its origins with 161 before the vulgar era, when Judah and Simon Maccabe, ambassadors of their Mattatia father, transfer to require of the Roman Senate an alliance against Antiochus Epiphane of Seleucides of Syria which had profaned the Temple. Many Jews settle, initially in current Trastevere (in addition to the Tiber) reserved the abroads. They bring in their luggage the rite into force then in Jerusalem, rite which will remain unchanged during twenty and one centuries and that one describes as Italian rite.
About the history of the ancient ghett :
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