{"id":1156,"date":"2018-06-15T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/?post_type=listing&#038;p=1156"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:58:14","slug":"giudecca-of-san-marcellino","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/listing\/giudecca-of-san-marcellino\/","title":{"rendered":"Giudecca of San Marcellino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cl\">There are records of a number of different areas in Naples having been inhabited by the Jewish community. These voluntary groupings came about, depending on the period, due to various factors (the quality of relations with the majority society, as well as the need to share a culture, facilities and businesses). It is not known which neighbourhood was the first to host a Jewish group. What\u2019s certain is that Jews lived in the area at the foot of the Monterone hill near the monastery of San Marcellino \u2013 which can now be seen between the S. Marcellino steps and Via Leopoldo Rondin\u00f2 \u2013 from the tenth century onwards. The vast efforts made during the Byzantine siege of 536 to defend a nearby section of city walls has, however, led to theories of there having been a Jewish presence in the area even as early as that. A few centuries later, according to an official deed from 984, there are reliable records of a <span title=\" Synagogue: translation of beth ha-keneset, house of assembly. A central place in Jewish life, used for the community\u2019s activities of worship, study and assembly. Although not an expressly \u2018consecrated\u2019 place, the characteristic activities of the synagogue and the presence of the Scrolls of the Law qualify it as a space worthy of respect and honour. According to the various periods and the function regarded as most important at the time, the synagogue is also known as \u2018scola\u2019 or \u2018temple\u2019. \"> synagogue <\/span> and, later, other Jewish-owned properties. San Marcellino was an area with plenty of wells and baths, and it is almost certain that there must have been a <em><span title=\"Bath for washing and ritual purification. The water of the \u201cmikvah\u201d must be \u201cliving\u201d, in other words rain or spring water.\"> mikveh <\/span><\/em> near the synagogue. As the Jewish population grew in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 13<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, the Giudecca spread as far as what is now Piazza Portanova and beyond; this section was named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/listing\/giudecca-grande-of-portanova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giudecca Grande<\/a> or \u201cdi Portanova\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[4],"list-tags":[],"location":[184,42],"acf":[],"cubewp_post_meta":[],"taxonomies":["Jewish neighborhoods","Campania","Naples","Optional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}