THE JEWS OF SAN NICANDRO

by John Davis

http://www.haaretz. com/culture/ books/jewish- history-from- mass-to-mass- conversion- 1.331674

JEWISH HISTORY / From mass to mass conversion

They appeared in rural, southeastern Italy, a region that hadn’t seen Jews for 500 years, claiming to be the children of Israel. In Rome, the rabbis didn’t want to listen, but San Nicandro’s neo-Jews held their ground.

By Shalom Goldman

The Jews of San Nicandro
by John Davis. Yale University Press, 252 pages, $30