We are pleased to announce the launch of the digital Atlas In-italja. This ambitious platform is the outcome of two and a half years of intensive collaboration among historians, art historians, and scholars of Jewish studies from the Universities of Rome Sapienza, Pisa, Bologna, and Milan. In-italja is an innovative digital humanities project that documents, illustrates, and dynamically narrates the history of Jewish mobility in Italy, as well as the complex interrelations between Jews and Christians from the Middle Ages to 1938.
At its core lies a rich and extensive corpus: the Atlas catalogues and describes more than 20,000 items, including archival documents, books, and images, making it a substantial new resource for research and teaching. The project adopts a spatial approach that moves across multiple fields (political, economic, and cultural history, as well as gender and family history) offering a multilayered and, we hope, genuinely innovative perspective on the history of Jewish communities in the Italian peninsula and the wider Mediterranean.
All data are available in Linked Open Data (LOD) format. The platform features intuitive search functions (by place, chronological span, and names), along with a series of thematic pathways designed to guide users through key topics and connections. The Atlas is further enriched by two accompanying podcasts (in Italian), which expand its narrative and interpretive reach. We warmly invite colleagues, researchers, and all those interested to explore In-italja and to share their feedback.