Italy has a very important role in Jewish history and genealogy: it is located centrally on the Mediterranean sea and serves as an important crossroad and an intersection between North and South, East and West, Sephardic<\/strong> and Ashkenaz<\/strong>i culture.
\nIf your ancestors lived in or came from Europe, there
\nare many possibilities that a branch of your family went through Italy.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Jewish Genealogy This wonderfully informative site is an excellent starting point to researching your Jewish\/Italian ancestry.\u00a0 You’ll find everything from DNA information to former surnames of Jews by provinces such as Rome, Venice and Sicily. There are also plenty of resource links to explore.\u00a0 Definitely worth checking it out!\u00a0 For more Jewish names check out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[47,70,69,68,65,48,49,67,4,64,57],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74RDw-3l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.italiansurname.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}