Tamar Herzig News Today

The deafening silence of global feminist organizations that were expected to spearhead the acknowledgment of gender-based violence in its most severe manifestations was followed by a denial campaign.

A high-ranking Italian state official was able to silence any complaints and until now, effectively erase the memory of the victims suffering.

A Tel Aviv University historian has unearthed evidence of the organised gang rape of Jewish slave women and girls in 17th-century Italy. According to Professor Tamar Herzig’s research, the rape was organised by Dr Bernardetto Buonromei, “a high-ranking state official at Livorno’s slave prison, who was also able to silence any complaints and effectively erase…

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany employed the rape of Jewish slave women as a “grand spectacle of violence,” using it to extort exorbitant ransom fees from the wealthy Jewish community of Livorno, according to professor Tamar Herzig.

A new Tel Aviv University study unveils the phenomenon of female Jewish slavery and uncovers gang rape in a 17th century Italian slave prison.

In 1610, a doctor and founding father of the Italian city of Livorno organized the mass rape of enslaved Jewish women from Morocco in a plot to extort money from local Jews

In 1610, a doctor and founding father of the Italian city of Livorno organized the mass rape of enslaved Jewish women from Morocco in a plot to extort money from local Jews