History of the Jews in Tivoli
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The first traces of Jewish presence in the city Tivoli dates back to 1305. The main activity of the Jews of the town was the medical. Among the prominent personalities it's remembered the doctor Elijah di Sabato and Solomone the physician.
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In the fifteenth century the cultural level of the community had reached a high level, as tracked by the number of codices that were stored in major libraries. Tivoli was the site of a meeting of representatives from the Italian Jewish communities to discuss the anti-Jewish laws enacted by the Council of Basel (1431-1449).[2]
The Jewish cemetery was located in the resort community of Magnano, three kilometers downstream from the city center along the Via Tiburtina. In a later period the archives indicate the cemetery at Rocca Pia's castle. According to the sources the synagogue was located in the area between the existing street of Via Palatine and the Vicolo dei Granai, the latter known as " alley of the Jews." The building, built over the centuries in various buildings, was finally destroyed in 1937 to expand via Palatina. The Jewish ghetto was surrounded by a two-door under the arch of the medieval portico, at the beginning of the alley that brings to Piazza Palatina, and the other at the end of the Vicolo dei Granai that ends in Via Palatina.
"According to the most ancient sources, the Ventura family departed from Tivoli along with other Jews expelled from the town by Pope Pius V in 1568".[3]
In the church of San Silvestro there is a twelfth-century fresco depicting a group of Jews involved in a dispute, which took place in 315, with the Bishop Sylvester.