The internationally famous “Wednesday rag market” in Rome’s Campo di Fiori has been suppressed as being “too typically Jewish.”
For many decades, pushcarts and stalls laden with junk or antiques congregated every Wednesday in about a dozen alleys in the Campo di Fiori district. They have been a tourist landmark in Rome. Actually about 50 percent of the 500 stalls were operated by Jews. It is believed that the market will be reopened after a “slight purge.”
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