Place · Italy and Western Europe
Ferrara
An Italian Jewish center of printing, medicine, and confraternities.
44.8504°N 11.6099°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Ferrara ↗
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The Mendes family lived openly as Jews in Ferrara from about 1553.
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Ferrara's Gemilut Hasadim confraternity cared for poor patients and burials.
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Isaac Lampronti used contemporary science to revisit killing lice on Sabbath.