Jewish Synagogue of Verona

The Jewish Community of Verona is one of the oldest and most important in Italy. Today it is one of the 21 Jewish communities gathered in the UCEI. It has its headquarters in via Portici 3. It is difficult to date the Jewish presence in the city of Verona.

Certainly there were Jews in the tenth century, so much so that in 965 the Veronese bishop, as a consequence of a theological dispute, caused his expulsion. New documentary traces of their presence are found in the territories surrounding the city still at the end of the 12th century.

The names reported in these documents suggest that the origin of these Jews was Germanic and therefore of Ashkenazi rite.

Map: Jewish Synagogue of Verona