A new Tel Aviv University study unveils unknown evidence of organized gang rape of Jewish female slaves from Moroccan in Livorno in 17th century Italy. According to historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Bernardetto Buonromei, a high-ranking state official in Livorno’s slave jail, orchestrated the rape. He skillfully suppressed all objections and removed the victims’ anguish from memory. Herzig analyzed papers from the summer of 1610 when Buonromei ordered the placement of a group of recently captured North African Jewish women into the male sections of the slave jail. This went against...