Italy

Italian Jews worry and wait as Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader, prepares to take power

Meloni would be Italy’s first female prime minister, and head of its first far-right government since World War II, when it allied with Hitler’s Germany.

By Simone Somekh September 30, 2022 2:45 pm

Mantua, Italy, to get Jewish museum on burial site of 17th-century Kabbalist masters

The site was a graveyard for Mantua’s Jewish community for centuries. Then Nazis took it over. Then it was neglected for decades.

January 6, 2022 5:18 pm

Leading mayoral candidate in Rome apologizes for Holocaust comments decried as antisemitic

Why are victims of mass murders other than the Holocaust less widely remembered? “Perhaps because they did not own banks,” Enrico Michetti wrote last year.

October 11, 2021 12:01 am