19th century
Restoration of the ghetto after the fall of the Empire
1814-1815·Rome (États pontificaux)
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Pius VII restores night confinement, the wearing of a distinctive badge and the prohibition of owning land
The return of Pie VII to Rome, after the fall of the Empire, was also the return of the ghetto. The gates that the French occupation had brought down were raised again; nocturnal confinement, the distinctive sign, and the prohibition on owning real property were reinstated in a single administrative gesture. Roman Jews had known, for the span of a generation, civil status, access to trades, and freedom to leave the quarter; they lost these without any violence being necessary. The Restoration did no more than reestablish a prior law, and it is in this that it left its mark: the ghetto of Rome thereby became the last in Western Europe, and remained so until the end of the temporal power.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
Attilio Milano, *Il ghetto di Roma* ; Cecil Roth, *The History of the Jews of Italy* ; *Encyclopaedia Judaica*, article « Rome ».