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Jewish Music
Jewish Cemeteries


What to do in Florence
Explore the Jewish Quarter, Jewish Museum, Academy of Arts, museums, palaces, and gardens. Experience Shabbat in the Beit Chabad.


History of Jewish Florence
One art piece of Jewish themed art dominates this beautiful city is David, created by the artist Michelangelo.

Just across the Ponte Vecchio, in the maze of old lanes that face the Pitti Palace, is the via Ramagliau (once called Via dei Giudei or "Street of the Jews") which remains unchanged from the Renaissance. The streets are about 10 feet wide and are framed in by gray and yellow, three story houses with brown shutters.

The famous Duomo, was started in 1296, and what most people don't see, are the wooden side doors on the south side of the cathedral, where one can see one Tablet of the Law with the first five commandments written in Hebrew. Another set of carved doors were started in 1425 and finished in 1452. They are the 10 carved panels on the doors of the Baptistery, which represent 10 scenes from the Bible as carved by Lorenzo Ghiberti.

The famous Medici ruler and humanist Lorenzo the Magnificent invited Sephardic Jews to settle in Florence in the fifteenth century because he wanted to have international traders and bankers in the city state. Even when the ghetto existed, restrictions were not so rigorously enforced, so Florence became a safe haven for Jewish refugees fleeing from Spain and the other Papal States. When Napoleon opened the gates of the ghetto, it was not such an enormous change as elsewhere. Again, in Florence the occupation of the Germans meant that about one-fourth of the community, including the rabbi, were sent to the death camps.


Informations Points
Chabad Tuscany
Borgo Pinti 8R - Florence
+39.388 999 0549 Send a message on Whatsapp
Responsible: Rav Levi & Sonia Wolvovsky;

Synagogues
Great Synagogue of Florence (Sephardi - Italian)
Via L. C. Farini 4 - Florence
+39.055.245252 Send a message on Whatsapp
Open Shabbos and Holidays
Responsible: Rabbi Gadi Piperno; Telephone: +39.351 612 0294 Send a message on Whatsapp;

Jewish Tours
Jewish Florence Tours (Jewish and Renaissance Florence or customized tours)
Florence
Responsible: Giovanna Bossi;

Shabbat Meals
Beit Chabad Florence
Via dei Pilastri 48 - Florence
Certification: Rabbi E. Borenstein, Glatt
Open Shabbat and Holidays
Responsible: Rabbi Eli Borenstein;

Kosher Restaurants
Baghetto (Meat)
Via Luigi Carlo Farini, 5r - 50121 Florence
+39.055 230 2567 Send a message on Whatsapp
Certification: Rabbi Gadi Piperno
Ruth's (Dairy Vegeterian)
Via Luigi Carlo Farini, 2a - Florence
+39.055.2480888 Send a message on Whatsapp
Certification: Rabbi Gadi Piperno, Chalav Israel
Responsible: Simcha Jelinek;

Kosher Stores
Carrefour Express (Kosher section)
Via Carducci 8/r - Florence

Jewish Attractions
Pesach Seder
Florence
Open First and second night.
The Florence Summer Minyan
Borgo Pinti 8R - 50121 Florence
Open July-August
Responsible: Rabbi Levi Wolvovsky; Telephone:
+39.388 999 0549 Send a message on Whatsapp;

Jewish Museums
Jewish Museum of Florence
Via L. C. Farini 4 - Florence
+39.055.2346654 Send a message on Whatsapp
Responsible: Societŕ Cooperativa Culture;

Mikvahs
Great Synagogue of Florence (Women)
Via Farini, 4 - Florence
+39.3384506350 Send a message on Whatsapp
Certification: Rav Meir Posen and Rav Gadi Piperno
Open By appointments.

Jewish Music
The New Old Klezmer Band (Israeli; Klezmer; Chassidic; Classical; Baroque; Jazz)
Florence
+39.055.4223161 Send a message on Whatsapp
Responsible: Amit Arieli;

Jewish Cemeteries
New
Via di Caciolle 13 - Florence
+39.055.416723 Send a message on Whatsapp
Responsible: Jewish Community; Telephone: +39.055.245252 Send a message on Whatsapp;
Old Cemetery
Viale Ariosto 14 - Florence
+39.055.2346654 Send a message on Whatsapp
Responsible: Cooperativa Servizi Culturali Sigma; Telephone: +39.055.2346654 Send a message on Whatsapp; Email:

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