There is a wealth of published material, including books, journals, articles, in Italian… we highlight some of them here but mainly present works in English.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
SELECTED BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Barbera, Mariarosaria, and Magnani Cianetti, Marina. “The Jewish Catacombs of Rome, especially Villa Torlonia: Synthesis, Diagnosis and projects for the Restoration and Enhancement.” In Bertele, Esther and Ziesemer, John (eds). Jewish Cemeteries and Burial Culture in Europe. Berlin: ICOMOS, 2011. Online at http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/icomoshefte/article/viewFile/20227/14014
Biddau, Niccolo (photos). Gli Spazi della Parola: Sinagoghe in Piemonte/Synagogues in Piedmont. Turin: Elede, 2002
Boccato, Carla, 1981. The Ancient Jewish Cemetery of san Nicolo on the Lido in Venice. Committee for the Historical Jewish Center of Venice, Venice.
Bonilauri, Francesco and Maugeri, Vicenza (eds). Ghetti e Giudecche in Emilia-Romagna (exhibition catalogue). Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2004
Bonilauri, Francesco and Maugeri, Vicenza (eds); Filippo Velente (trans). Guide to Jewish Places in Bologna. Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2006
Bonilauri, Francesco and Maugeri, Vicenza (eds). Le Sinagoghe in Emilia Romagna. Exhibition Catalogue, Jewish Museum of Bologna. Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2003
Brandes, Francesca (ed.), Venice and Environs: Jewish Itineraries, Venice and New York, Marsilio 1997
Calimani, Riccardo (trans. Katherine Silberblatt Wolfthal). The Ghetto of Venice: A History. New york: Evans, 1987
Calimani, Riccardo et al., Venice: Guide to the synagogues, museum and cemetery, Venice, Marsilio 2001
Candio, Paolo, 1991. “L’antico cimitero ebraico del lido nei contratti tra la Comunità Ebraica ed il monastero Benedettino di S. Nicolò,” Ateneo Veneto, CLXXVIII, 109-139
Cardillo, Duncan. “The Historical Jewish Ghettos of Venice.” The Oakland Journal (2003), 55-77
Cassuto, David, ‘The Scuola grande Tedesca in the Venice Ghetto’, Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. 3/4 (1977), pp. 40-57
Cassuto, Noemi. The Italian Synagogue Through the Ages. From: “Synagogues without Jews, and the Communities that used and built them”, by Rivka and Ben Zion Dorfmann.
Catarinella, G.R. Le Catacombe Ebraiche di Venosa. Basilicata Region.
Colafemmina, Cesare and Giorgio Gramegna. Guida al Museo/Guide to the Museum: Synagogue Museum St. Anna. Trani: Messaggi Edizioni, 2009
Curiel, Roberta and Cooperman, Bernard Dov, The Ghetto of Venice, New York, Rizzoli/London, Tauris Parke Book 1990
Del Russo, Jessica. Roma Subterranea Judaica. Online series of articles on the Jewish catacombs in Rome.
Devins, Driscoll P. Home of the Living: A Venetian Cemetery. Triton Press, Verona, 1991
Fiorentino, Luca (trans Martha B. Scherr and Susanna Eneberg). Il Ghetto Racconta Roma: The Ghetto Reveals Rome. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2005
Foa, Anna. Andare per ghetti e giudecche. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014
Gianolio, Emanuele. Gli ebrei a Trani e in Puglia nel medioevo. Thesis for Laurea degree, University of Bari, 1999.
Gruber, Samuel D. “Medieval Synagogues of the Mediterranean Region.” In Cohen-Mushlin, Aliza & Harmen H. Thies (eds). Jewish Architecture in Europe. Petersburg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010, pp 53-66
Gruber, Samuel D. “The Synagogues of Piedmont.” in Woolf, Jeffrey R. (ed.) Ebrei Piemontese: The Jews of Piedmont. New York: Yeshiva University Museum, 2008 63-70
Lacerenza, Giancarlo. “Painted Inscriptions and Graffiti in the Jewish Catacombs of Venosa: An Annotated Inventory.” Annali Sezione Orientale vol 79, 1-2 (2019) pp 275–305
Malkiel, David. “Renaissance in the Graveyard: The Hebrew Tombstones of Padua and Ashkenazic Acculturation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.” In AJS Review, 37, pp 333-370
Malkiel, David. Stones Speak – Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862. Leiden: Brill, 2013
Mann, V.B. (ed.), Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy, Berkeley 1989 (Jewish Museum, New York, catalogue)
Morpurgo, Andrea. Il cimitero ebraico in Italia: Storia e architettura di uno spazio identitario. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2012
Nongbri Brent. “Archival Research on the Excavation of the Synagogue at Ostia: A Preliminary Report.” in Journal for the Study of Judaism, Vol. 46 3, 2015. 366-402
Pardo, Luca (ed.). La Sinagoga di Bologna: Vicende e prospettive di un luogo e di una presenza ebraica. (Catalogue) Bologna: Pendragon, 2001
Perani, Mario. “The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A project to publish a complete corpus of all the epitaphs preserved in the Italian Jewish cemeteries of the sixteenth – nineteenth centuries.” In S. REIF (ed.), Death, Burial and Mourning Liturgy in the Ashkenazi Communities from the Early Medieval Period until the Early Modern Period: Proceedings of the Congress held at Tel Aviv University, May 10-12, 2010, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin – New York, 2014, pp. 241-289
Pivirotto, Riccardo and Monica Sideri. L’Ebreo Errante: Guida ai Luoghi Ebraici tra Arte e Storia nella Maremma Collinare. Orbetello: Edizioni Best Service, 1997
Quest. Issues in Conemporary Jewish History (Questioni di storia ebraica contemporanea). Journal of CDEC, the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Issue 2 (October 2011) — available online — is devoted specifically to Modernity and the Cities of the Jews
La Rassegna Mensile di Israel. Semi-scholarly journal of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, founded in 1925.
Runesson, Anders. “A Monumental Synagogue from the First Century: The Case of Ostia.” in Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume 33 2, 2002. 171 – 220
Sacerdoti, Annie and Luca Fiorentino. Guida all’Italia Ebraica. Genoa: Marietti, 1986
Sacerdoti, Annie, The Guide to Jewish Italy, New York, Rizzoli 2004
Sacerdoti, Annie and Annamarcella Tedeschi Falco (eds). Emilia Romagna: Itinerari ebraici; I luoghi, la storia, l’arte. Venice: Marsilio, 1992 (see the other volumes in this series, each devoted to an Italian region including Tuscany, Lazio, Veneto, Piedmont, etc)
Salvi, Stefania (ed). Tra Cultura Diritto e Religione Sinagoghe e cimiteri ebraici in Lombardia. Milano: Corberi Sapori Editore, 2013.
Soprintendenza per I Beni Artistici e Storici di Venezia. Venezia ebraica: Il restauro dell’antico Cimitero del Lido. Electa, Milan, 1999.
Zevi, Adachiara. “Musei Ebraici: Per Quale Arte?” in La Rassegna Mensile di Israel. Vol. LXXV No. 1-2, January-August, 2009