Expulsion of the Jews from the Republic of Genoa, renewed after a century of precarious tolerance

The Republic of Genoa renewed the expulsion of its Jews, after a century of precarious tolerance made up of revocable admissions and successive expulsions.

Northern Italy long offered, between the Papal States and the merchant republics, a regime of self-interested tolerance: pawnbrokers were admitted by fixed-term contracts, renewed as long as they were needed, then driven out. Genoa did this for generations. Italian Jews thus lived under a regime of lease rather than of right.