Sentimento Intorno al Proclama…col quale s’introducono gl’Ebrei ne’ Regni delle due Sicilie…3 Febbrajo…1740

(ITALIAN-JUDAICA)

n.p.

(Naples?)

1740

Due to the depressed economy of Sicily, the government in 1695 encouraged the presence of Jews to coduct trade. Eventually, in 1728, permission was granted to establish a synagogue in Messina. By 1740 Jews were invited to settle in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. However, the native populace proved hostile, and inveighed against this Charter granted to the Jews. The government finally acceded to their demand in 1746, expelling these Jewish settlers. The present anonymous pamphlet rails against the 1740 charter, supplying reasons why Jews are detrimental to society; it makes reference to theological treatises and papal encyclicals. See Cecil Roth, History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 351