Um, in Italy it is held that it comes from the "dump" (Ghetto, from gettare - to dump, to throw away) to which the Jews were restricted in Venice. Anyway, I have posted about the common history of Popes and Jews in Rome: http://community.livejournal.com/fpb_de_fide/1203.html
Re: Roman Jews
Date: 2010-03-06 02:22 am (UTC)