Scannagiudei. Appunti su un toponimo e su un cognome infelice

This contribution sheds light on an early medieval Neapolitan odonym, Scannagiudei, which in the past sparked hypotheses of anti-Jewish pogroms that, in reality, never occurred. It is shown that the name is related to the family of the same name, who were likely the owners of a palace there. The origin of the surname—which shares a common structure with other mostly Southern Italian surnames featuring the 'scanna-' element—probably stems from a specific event involving an ancestor of the family.