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Josef Di Michele Coen
Josef di Michele Coen (born 1854; date of death unknown) was one of the Italian Jews, Italian Jewish children forcibly taken from his parents and baptized under Pius IX. The Jewish-language German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums reported the (otherwise poorly documented) facts during the year 1864, and tried to raise awareness of the case. Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums;n° 47; 15 novembre 1864; page: 730/ref> Biography Coen was born in 1854 in a poor Jewish family. In 1864 he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. Sent by his master to deliver a pair of shoes at the house of a priest, the boy was seized and dragged to the Casa dei Neofiti, where he was detained for baptism. The papal authorities refused to surrender him, in spite of the protests of his father and of the Jewish community. The affair caused a stir throughout Europe, particularly in Second French Empire, France, the French ambassador, Count Sartigues, protesting vehemently in the name of his government. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Jews
Italian Jews ( it, Ebrei Italiani, he, יהודים איטלקים ''Yehudim Italkim'') or Roman Jews ( it, Ebrei Romani, he, יהודים רומים ''Yehudim Romim'') can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living in or with roots in Italy, or, in a narrower sense, to mean the Italkim, an ancient community living in Italy since the Ancient Roman era, who use the Italian liturgy (or “Italian Rite”) as distinct from those Jewish communities in Italy dating from medieval or modern times who use the Sephardic liturgy, the Italian Nusach or the Nusach Ashkenaz. Divisions Italian Jews historically fall into four categories. #Italkim, Jews of the “Italian Rite” who have resided in Italy since Roman times; see below. #Sephardi Jews, in particular Spanish and Portuguese Jews, i.e., Jews who arrived in Italy following their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula. The Kingdom of Spain expelled Jews with the 1492 Alhambra Decree and the persecution of Jews and Muslims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |