It is likely that Jews were present in Gorizia at the time of its establishment, while the first written record dates back to 1288. Within the Christian feudal society Jews had a strong internal autonomy. Jewish communities have lived in separate parts of the city. Usually, the settlement included a market town, a street or two, sometimes even a special quarter. The Jewish community had usually built a synagogue and religious school and secured a place for the ritual bath and cemetery. The community was led by its wealthiest member and a rabbi furthermore it had a butcher, a tailor and a scribe. In 1715, a school is mentioned in the Jewish ghetto in Gorizia. Probably it was intended purely for religious lessons. In 1789, Jews had to arrange a school with German as the language of instruction, in order to reduce the differences with the rest of Gorizia inhabitants. The school operated for several years, but was later closed and people began to send their children to city schools. A few years later the school was reopened for children of wealthy families. In the time of Rabbi Giacomo Bolaffio, who worked between 1894 and 1903, the Jewish school or. yeshiva (hebr. Yeshivah) in Gorizia has improved substantially. The teachers Abramo Pavia and Betty Pavia were teaching. Education included reading, grammar, translation and commentaries on the biblical text. Furthermore, the students learned to translate prayers. Girls had to learn about Jewish ethics, while boys learned about the Jewish history and literature. Older students learned also about Jewish rituals, Hebrew calligraphy and the recitation of liturgical forms in the synagogue. The Ministry of Education and Science contributed funds for the religious school. At the end of the 19th century members of the Gorizia Jewish community were, on average, better educated than most of the population of Gorizia. The Jewish school in the former ghetto was well attended, although some children also attended other city schools. In 1900 we find the second request of the community for the school’s abolishment due to the costs for paying a teacher. With the arrival of Rabbi Abraham Schreiber in 1928, who was a member of the Orthodox Judaism from Hungary, the Jewish education in Gorizia experienced a new development. Jewish students were gathered around him. Some of them moved to Gorizia because of the said Rabbi, to follow his teaching. The development of religious schools in Gorizia was driven mainly by immigrant Jews from Poland. For a short time Gorizia regained the enthusiasm of Jewish studies, typical for the first half of the 19th century and the two Rabbis from the family Reggio.