On 8 December 2009, the museum inaugurated the Libyan Judaism Hall, dedicated to the immigration of Jewish refugees transferred to Rome in 1967. Under the protection of the UN and with the help of the HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) and the UCEI (Union of Italian Jewish Communities), about 4,000 Libyan Jews passed through Italy.
The video A Star on the Tiber, the Jews in Rome from the Emancipation to the present, is presented in a continuous loop in Italian and in English. It traces the sad period of the Jewish Community during the racial laws and deportation period through testimonies and footages. But the film leaves us above all
Language and cuisine, urban space and architecture, education and assistance bodies: everyday life in the ghetto in Rome narrated through objects and documents.
Silver, precious fabrics and polychrome marbles: the room is a tribute to the objects that the Jews of the ghetto donated to their synagogues and the occasion to explain their use within the liturgical celebrations of the Jewish tradition.
The room is dedicated to the events that mark the time of Judaism: prayer, the Shabat, the annual Jewish holidays and the cycle of life. In each showcase the recurrences of the calendar that characterize the life of the Jews are explained and represented through the objects belonging to the Roman Jewish tradition. Â
Tombstones casts from Rome catacombs and from Ostia Antica synagogue, Middle Age manuscripts, plants of the city characterize this room in which the uninterrupted presence of the Jews in Rome, for over two thousand years, is visually reconstructed.
Renaissance velvets decorated with gold threads, embroideries and lace of the Baroque age, French eighteenth-century lampas: a world of grace and richness that has come down to us from the age of the ghetto. The museum has about 900 fabrics, some of which are displayed in the windows, others used in the city’s synagogues. Most
The Ancient Marbles Gallery is a suggestive space where the marbles, of the utmost importance for the history of the Jewish Community of Rome and dating back to the XVI-XIX centuries, are collected. Some of them remember the legacies of wealthy families, others document the acquisition of land for the cemetery. An inscription prohibits the
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