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| Today in Jewish History - September 20 / Tishrei 5 |
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1870 September 20, ROME (Italy)
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| Victor Emanuel |
| Courtesy of Glencoin |
After the defeat of Napoleon, Victor Emanuel seized the Capital, breaking the power of the Papal State. On October 13 the Jews were proclaimed free while the Roman ghetto, one of the oldest and cruelest ghettos in Europe, was torn down and soon abolished. This was the last ghetto system to fall. It had lasted three hundred and fifteen years.
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