Turin

General

       The presence of Jews in Turin was recorded by Bishop Maximus in the fourth century, but thereafter no evidence of Jews exists until 1424 when the French Banker, Elias Alamanni, moved there with his family.  The Jewish population grew as follows:  

        During the Holocaust, 875 Jews were deported by the Nazis from Turin.  At the end of the war, there were almost 3,000 Jews remaining.  As of 1970, the Jewish population was about 2,000.

       The synagogue depicted below is the Tempio Israelitico designed by Enrico Petiti and built in 1880-84.  The synagogue was destroyed during World War II.

Postcards

    Below are two postcards of the synagogue described above.  The first was postmarked April 25, 1905.  The second is a first day cover issued March 29, 1998, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of Italian Jews.

References

Encyclopedia Judaica, CD Rom Edition, Keter Publishing

Carole Herselle Krinsky, Synagogues of Europe, P.377-78

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