European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

LaGuardia governed in an uneasy alliance with New York's Jews and liberal WASPs, together with Italian and German ethnics.

Numbers were further augmented after 1550, following campaigns of persecution by the Venetian Inquisition against Italian anti-Trinitarians and Jews.

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Innocent showed a degree of sensitivity in his dealings with the Jews within the Italian States.

In 1938, the fascist regime led by Benito Mussolini introduced a series of laws instituting an official segregationist policy in the Italian Empire, especially aimed against the Jews.

Later, Fascist Italy participated actively in the persecution of the Italian Jews, arresting and handing over tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi Germany.

The persecution of the Jews ended in Southern Italy ( controlled by the Kingdom of Italy ) after the armistice with the Allies ( 8 September 1943 ), while in Central and Northern Italy ( controlled by the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by Mussolini ) the persecution continued until the definitive fall of Mussolini's regime ( 25 April 1945 ).

Italian Jews read these verses on the eve of the first Yom Tov and Yom Tov Sheni of Passover, just before Arvit.

The Nazis had used the opportunity to round up the many Jews living in that part of Italy and sent them off to extermination camps ; heretofore, many Italian officials had refused to implement the " Final Solution.

Among Sephardi and Italian Jews from the fifteenth century on, some authorities sought to apply the methods of Aristotelian logic, as reformulated by Averroes.

Certain Jewish communities, however, such as the Baladi Yemenite, Andalusian ( Western Sefardic or Spanish and Portuguese Jews ), and some Italian communities, never accepted it as authentic.

** Fosse Ardeatine massacre: 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups, in Rome.

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Category: Italian Jews

Many Italian Jews took refuge in Corfu during the Venetian centuries and spoke their own language ( Italkian ), a mixture of Hebrew-Italian in a Venetian or Apulian dialect with some Greek words.

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It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

Other small ethnic groups that make up the 12 % of the white population are descendants of Swiss, Italian, Syrian, Turks, Jews ( Mostly Sephardic ), and the Palestinian ( who migrated in order to escape Christian persecution from the Muslim community of the West Bank ).

Category: Italian Jews

The Romaniotes had distinct customs, very different from those of the Sephardic Jews, and closer to those of the Italian Jews: some of these are thought to be based on the Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud.

Category: Italian Jews

This was reflected in Constantinople by the construction of the Blachernae palace, the creation of brilliant new works of art, and general prosperity at this time: an increase in trade, made possible by the growth of the Italian city-states, may have helped the growth of the economy.

The Italian bass virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti helped to encourage composers to give more difficult parts for his instrument.

A new generation of directors has helped return Italian cinema to a healthy level since the end of the 1980s.

Hagi started the season 1992 – 1993 with Brescia Calcio but in the first season the club was relegated to Serie B ; in the next season Hagi helped Brescia Calcio win the Italian Serie B and get promoted to Serie A.

El Greco, a respected Greek artist from the period, settled in Spain, and infused Spanish art with the styles of the Italian renaissance and helped create a uniquely Spanish style of painting.

An important event that helped the diffusion of Italian was the conquest and occupation of Italy by Napoleon in the early nineteenth century ( who was himself of Italian-Corsican descent ).

His knowledge of the Italian language and his affability and good humor, however, often helped in mediating between the papal regime and the British government, and he was able on many occasions to offer advice and protection for British visitors who found themselves in awkward scrapes.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

With help from the Italian city-states and other adventurers, notably King Sigurd I of Norway, Baldwin captured the port cities of Acre ( 1104 ), Beirut ( 1110 ), and Sidon ( 1111 ), while exerting his suzerainty over the other crusader states to the north – Edessa ( which he had founded in 1097 during the crusade ), Antioch, and Tripoli, which he helped capture in 1109.

The fragile peace he helped maintain between the various Italian states collapsed with his death.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Although few in number, British, German, Italian, and Spanish investors and farmers helped modernize the country.

The case received international attention and fueled the anti-papal sentiments that helped the Italian nationalism movement and culminated in the 1870 Capture of Rome.

Since 2007, France and Italy have contested the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy ; it was created for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian hero who helped unify Italy.

His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

Relations improved further, when Pope Leo XIII, due to Italian considerations, distanced the Vatican from the Rome-Vienna-Berlin alliance and helped to facilitate a rapprochement between Paris and St. Petersburg.

Some of his tracks were however pure hip hop, e. g. " Il rap " which sampled Public Enemy's Chuck D. Hip hop is especially characteristic of southern Italy, a fact which some observers have contributed to the southern concept of rispetto ( respect, honor ), a form of verbal jousting ; both facts have helped identify southern Italian music with the African American hip hop style.

In moving to Chelsea, Gullit played an important part in the " foreign revolution " as numerous high profile international stars, such as the prolific German World Cup winner Jürgen Klinsmann, Italian superstar Gianfranco Zola who became a Chelsea legend, and Dutch magician Dennis Bergkamp, joined Premiership clubs and helped to increase its worldwide profile.

Luca Serianni, an Italian scholar who helped to define and develop the colon as a punctuation mark, identified four punctuational modes for it: syntactical-deductive, syntactical-descriptive, appositive, and segmental.

The first recipient was the Italian neorealist drama La Strada, which helped establish Federico Fellini as one of the most important European directors.

In 1032, Umberto received the Maurienne, his native country, from the Emperor Conrad II, whom he had helped in his Italian campaigns against Aribert, Archbishop of Milan.

The first group it helped co-establish was the European Right after the 1984 election, which also consisted of the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), its early inspiration, and the Greek National Political Union.

Bilbao's success under British coaches continued with the arrival of William Garbutt from Italian Serie A side Napoli, who he had helped to a top-three finish for the first time in their history in 1932-1933 and again in 1933-1934.