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`Good Life' Traveler
Discovers Italy

GABRIEL LEVENSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

F

or Jewish travelers, the good
life is a many-splendored
thing. It can be the apart-
ment rented for a month in
exclusive Yemin Moshe, over-
looking the Old City.
Or the good life can be a two-
week cruise through the islands
of French Polynesia aboard a sail-
ing ship like the 170-passenger
Wind Star. One stops at ports like
Papeete, the capital of the archi-
pelago and can enjoy a Sabbath
repast at the home of one of the
Moroccan Jewish families which
have settled there in recent years.
Or the good life might be real-
ized by hiring a little Fiat for a
week or so and tooting through
the cobblestoned villages that dot
the fragrant hills of Tuscany — in
search of medieval synagogues.
The region, half way up the boot
of Italy, encompasses such centers
of contemporary Jewish life as
Livorno (Leghorn), Pisa and Flo-
rence; a Jewish presence in Tus-
cany was noted as early as the
12th century, when Benjamin of
Tudela visited Jewish families in
Lucca and Pisa.
A magnificently-illustrated

Livorno in large numbers when
Fernando di Medici, eager to de-
velop his city as a major commer-
cial port, opened it up to the
experienced Marrano merchant" '
of Spain and Portugal. He guar-
anteed them freedom of worship,
exempted them from wearing the
hated yellow badge of identity and
gave them the right to bear arms,
to ride in carriages or on horse-
back, to open shops, to engage
Christian servants, to attend the
university and to give medical care
to non-Jews.
And most of all, Grand Duke
Fernando allotted arriving Jews (
the greatest freedom of all. Unlike
the Jews in Florence, Venice and
Rome, the Livornese were not con-
fined to a ghetto.
Present-day Jewish life in
Livorno is based on a new syna-
gogue, a museum and an adjoin-
ing community center. The
synagogue, an outstanding ex-
ample of contemporary Italian ar-
chitecture, was designed by the
Roman Jewish architect, Angel di
Castro, in the shape of the large
tent in which Moses sheltered the
Tablets of the Law during the 40
years of desert
wandering, and it
contains artifacts
dating from 1593,
when the first
Livorno synagoguei
was built.
The new Great
Synagogue is locat-
ed on Piazza Ben-
amozegh ("the
worthy Mosaic, or
Jew"), named for
Rabbi Elia Ben-
amozegh, a scholar,
historian and Ital-
ian patriot of the
19th century who
had proclaimed:
"Italian Jews! Who
among you would
not reverently bow
his head before
those who can
boast of both Moses
and Dante!"
The synagogue
is on the site of the
The interior of the synagogue in Florence.
previous one, se-
verely damaged in
work, Jewish Itineraries of Tus-
1944 by an Allied bombing raid
cany has recently appeared. It eas- which virtually destroyed the city.
es travel through the region and The original synagogue, con-
serves as the inspiration for this structed in 1602, was considered
extended "good life" report.
the most beautiful in Europe, sec-
One Tuscan itinerary, among ond only to the Spanish-Por-
the many possibilities suggested tuguese in Amsterdam; and senior
in the new guidebook, would run congregants who had been bar
from Livorno, the major seaport mitzvah in its sanctuary will
on the Ligurian Coast, to Florence,
proudly explain to visitors that no
the capital of Tuscany and one of sovereign or head of state ever
the culture capitals of the world
came through Livorno without
Jews were first attracted to pausing to enter its synagogue.

