Ferrara Synagogue
Ferrara Synagogue | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Judaism |
Status | Jewish museum |
Location | |
Location | Ferrara, Italy |
Geographic coordinates | 44°50′03″N 11°37′18″E / 44.83422°N 11.621754°E |
Website | |
http://ww3.comune.fe.it/museoebraico/ |
The Ferrara Synagogue is a synagogue located in Ferrara, Italy.
The synagogue is the only surviving representative of the several synagogues that once flourished in Ferrara.
Synagogue
The surviving synagogue, the Scola Tedesca, German Synagogue, is a large room with a
Jewish museum
The museum displays the Torah Ark of the Scola Italiana, Italian rite synagogue, once located in a large room in the same building. The room, now in use as a lecture hall, retains its original, vaulted,
Among the artifacts are an eighteenth-century contract between a local Jewish family and a newly hired nursemaid in which the nursemaid undertakes not to baptize the Jewish baby, and a stamp used to seal Jewish graves to prevent medical students at the university from using the cadavers for dissection practice.[1]