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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, September 2 3, 1969 —

See Fading of Small Communities as Italy's 30,000 Jews Show Urban Trend

By TULLIA ZEVI

(JTA Correspondent in Italy)
(Copyright, 1960, JTA, Inc.)

ROME—Italy's 30,000 Jews,
grouped into 23 communities,
remained stationary numbers
during the past year but tended
to move increasingly into cities
with large Jewish communities.
The trend foreshadowed the dis-
appearance of the smaller Jew-
ish communities.
Milan and Rdirre are the tw
major centers of Italian Jewisl
life. Milan, Italy's largest in
dustrial center, offers sub
stantial educational and job op-
portunities, and it exerts a great
attraction not only for Italian
Jews living in the smaller towns
but also on foreign Jews who
have established their own com-
munities within the Jewish com-
munity.

They include Jews from
Syria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey and
a large group of Ashkenazi
Jews. The Milan Je . sh corn-
munity totals 8,000 p ons.
unun-
The largest Jewish
with
ity in Italy is that of
o of-
11,238 persons, ac
Rome's
ficial statistics.
ff, says the
Chief Ra
r Pr Jews in Rome
nu
,000, includi s the
e t
such intern
e p
s as F • 0
org -uz
ations and t
Unite
dusty' , as well as • m-
bers f the internatio I colony
of artists, students, t desmen
nd journalists who f quently
take up residence in R le last-
ing several years.

The doors of Rome's ghetto
were opened 90 years ago.
Jews poured out into the life

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Milan refl•cts the industrial
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dustr . s uch as cotton and
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Ws.

Jewish educational and cul-
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tivity, as in most free countries,
and there were important de-
velopments in such . activities
du lig the past Jewish year.
L
December, a new die-
r y and pre-vocational
m e n
school was inaugurated in
Rome. esigned to accommo-
date 700 • upils, the school cost
$250,000. onstruction of a kin-
dergarte for the school is ex-
pected to start this year.
In Mil. 1, a site for a new
Jewish s ool has been pur-
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chased. T
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estimated
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school,
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Jewish children. The others
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resenting 37 nationalities.
The cultural program is ex-
tensive, covering Jewish schools,
rabbinical college, teacher train-
ing programs, textbook publi-
cation, Jewish centers and reg-
ular contacts with various youth
organizations. The Jewish center
in Rome will be augmented
soon by one to be opened in
Florence and a third in Milan.

Italy's Jews continue the
tradition of taking care of
their needy, including the
refugees coming to a nation
considered the most import.
ant European transit country
for Jews coming both from
the east and the south.
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steady decrease in the num-
ber of Jewish refugees living
in Italy temporarily while
awaiting permanent settle-
ment in other countries.
During the past year, only 83

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persons arrived from East
European countries, in addition

to the 109 already here. Most
of them were resettled in places
of their choice, including Can-
ada, Australia, and the United
States. Some settled permanent-
ly in Italy.
The exodus from Egypt con-
tinued through 1958 and 1959
but at a reduced pace. The
number of Egyptian Jews re-
ceiving relief in Italy decreased
from 442 cases in 1957 to 239
in 1958. About 2,500 Egyptian
Jews have settled in Italy and
90 _percent have become Italian
citizens.
A sidelight of JeWish life in
Italy this past year was a mani-
festation of an increased in-
terest in Judaism among non-
Jews in Rome. Rabbi Toaff said
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A number of events took
The Jewish community of

of the city and have opened
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The old ghetto remains a
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