FAENZA

FAENZA, city in N. central Italy. In the 14th century the Jews of Faenza were moneylenders. As a result of the sermons of bernardino da feltre , the celebrated physician Lazzaro da Pavia was expelled from the city in c. 1480. The liturgical poet Raphael ben Isaac da Faenza also lived in the city in the mid-15th century. There is also documented evidence of the presence of a rabbinate of Faenza in the same years. Isaac azulai , who manufactured majolica seder plates, worked here in 1575. From the 16th century until the Napoleon era there is no evidence that Jews lived in Faenza. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Milano, Italia, 127, 358; Roth, Italy, 199, 202, 445. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Caravita, Ebrei in Romagna: 1938 – 1945: dalle leggi razziali allo sterminio (1991); L. Picciotto, Il libro della memoria: gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia, 1943 – 1945 (2001). (Attilio Milano / Federica Francesconi (2nd ed.)