Jistory

Place in Italy

What happened to the Jews in Tuscany

46 events, 1200 AD to 1962 AD

12th century

  1. c. 1200–1299 AD Pisa statutes bar Jewish testimony and require Jewish badge · Pisa, Italy

13th century

  1. 1221–1222 AD Jewish badge imposed in Pisa · Pisa, Italy

14th century

  1. 1322 AD Badge order for the Jews of Pisa · Pisa, Italy

15th century

  1. c. 1450 AD Dominican harassment of Jews in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  2. 1458 AD Anti-Jewish demonstration in Florence (1458) · Florence, Italy
  3. 1471 AD Anti-Jewish demonstration in Florence (1471) · Florence, Italy
  4. c. 1471 AD Assault on Jewish houses in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  5. 1472–1473 AD Expulsion of Jews from Florence during the plague · Florence, Italy
  6. 1489 AD Jewish bankers fined and expelled from Lucca · Lucca, Italy
  7. 1490–1492 AD Expulsion of Jews from Florence (1490) · Florence, Italy
  8. 1492–1498 AD Second expulsion and recall of Jews from Florence · Florence, Italy
  9. 1493 AD Jew executed on false charge of defacing Virgin statue · Florence, Italy
  10. 1494 AD Jews expelled from Florence and Tuscany · Florence, Italy

16th century

  1. 1514 AD Jewish moneylenders recalled to Florence · Florence, Italy
  2. 1527 AD Order for Jews to leave Florence · Florence, Italy
  3. 1531 AD Anti-Jewish enactments abolished under Alessandro de Medici · Florence, Italy
  4. 1551 AD Cosimo grants extensive privileges to the Jews · Florence, Italy
  5. 1553 AD Burning of the Talmud in the Duchy of Florence · Florence, Italy
  6. 1567 AD Jewish badge introduced in Florence and Siena · Florence, Italy
  7. 1570 AD Cosimo establishes the Florence ghetto · Florence, Italy
  8. 1571 AD Insulting inscription placed on the ghetto gate · Florence, Italy
  9. 1572 AD Jews limited to 15-day stays in Lucca · Lucca, Italy
  10. 1593 AD Expulsion of Jews from Leghorn · Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
  11. 1593 AD Pisa Jewish authorities granted right to naturalize foreign Jews · Pisa, Italy

17th century

  1. 1690 AD Community forced to pay entire ghetto rent · Florence, Italy

18th century

  1. 1738 AD Residence time restriction relaxed in individual cases · Lucca, Italy
  2. 1778 AD Jews granted right to vote for municipal council · Florence, Italy
  3. 1790 AD Attacks on Jews at the time of the French Revolution · Florence, Italy
  4. 1798 AD French grant full citizenship to Jews of Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  5. 1799 AD Emancipation of Florentine Jews by the French · Florence, Italy
  6. 1800 AD Jewish freedom restored with French return · Florence, Italy

19th century

  1. 1814 AD Ghetto abolished in Pisa after the Restoration · Pisa, Italy
  2. 1814 AD Ghetto gates opened and Jews allowed to live outside · Florence, Italy
  3. c. 1814 AD Professional and military exclusions after grand ducal restoration · Florence, Italy
  4. 1845 AD Livorno Jews made eligible to all municipal offices · Livorno, Italy
  5. 1848 AD Equality granted to Tuscan Jews · Tuscany, Italy
  6. 1859 AD Emancipation of the Jews of Tuscany · Tuscany, Italy
  7. 1859 AD Jews of Livorno receive full citizenship · Livorno, Italy
  8. 1861 AD Italian unification emancipates Jews and ends ghettos · Tuscany, Italy

20th century

  1. 1943 AD Arrest of Anna Cassuto, Saul Campagnano and Raffaele Cantoni · Florence, Italy
  2. 1943 AD Arrest of Jewish-Christian relief committee members in Florence · Florence, Italy
  3. 1943 AD Raids on Florence convents and monasteries sheltering Jews · Florence, Italy
  4. 1943 AD SS raid on the Florence synagogue · Florence, Italy
  5. c. 1943–1945 AD Deportation of Pisa Jews to extermination camps · Pisa, Italy
  6. 1944 AD Nazi massacre at the Pardo-Roques house in Pisa · Pisa, Italy
  7. 1962 AD New synagogue dedicated in Leghorn · Livorno (Leghorn), Italy

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