Naples to open Jewish library
Naples is getting Italy's third Jewish library.
An exhibition called “Judaism and the Shoah in 500 Books
from Five Centuries” opened Wednesday in the local Tucci library. When the
exhibition is over, the 500 books will remain to form a Judaica section of the
library, the Italian Jewish portal Moked reported.
The books are in various languages, including English,
French and Hungarian, in addition to Italian.
The oldest book in the collection dates from 1632, but
most of the others deal with the Holocaust period, according to Moked.
Moked reported that this will be the first Jewish library
open to the public in southern Italy and only the third in the country, after
libraries in Rome and Milan. Naples is home to a small Jewish community.
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