Feeding Jewish Rome

How Jewish and Christian Butchers collaborated to feed the city's 4,000 Jews during the period of the ghetto, 1555-1870.

Kenneth Stow is Professor of Jewish History emeritus, University of Haifa. He is also the author of several books including Alienated Minority: the Jews of Medival Latin Europe, Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the 16th Century, Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolution, and most recently Feeding the Eternal City: Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto.