Roman Ghetto
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The Roman Ghetto or Ghetto of Rome was a Jewish ghetto established in 1555 by Pope Paul IV in the Rione Sant'Angelo, in Rome, Italy, in the area surrounded by present-day Via del Portico d'Ottavia, Lu
Via Rua in Ghetto, (rione Sant'Angelo), by Ettore Roesler Franz (c. 1880)
Piazza Giudia, showing the gate of the ghetto (middle right), the police post and the gallows; engraving from: Giuseppe Vasi, Delle Magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna: Tome II, Le Piazze principali di Roma, con obelischi, colonne ed altri ornamenti. Roma: Stamperia degli eredi Barbiellini, 1752
Disappeared Ghetto: Arco delle Azimelle in a watercolour by Ettore Roesler Franz (1880 ca.). The Azimelle are Jewish unleavened breads, which were produced in a bakery in this lane.
Detail from the Arch of Titus showing spoils from the Sack of Jerusalem
Arch of Titus
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The Arch of Titus is a 1st-century AD honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in c. 81 AD by Emperor Domitian shortly after the de
Roman Ghetto
…right to not have their ghetto torn down and be banished from Rome. A tax was paid every year, and oaths of loyalty were sworn by all adult Jews at the Arch of Titus, which celebrates the Roman sack of Jerusalem of 70 CE. Each year, on the Campidoglio, the chief Rabbi was made to publicly pay homage to the senior…
The Arch of Titus
Front view
Detail of the central soffit coffers
South inner panel, close-up of relief showing spoils from the fall of Jerusalem